N10bn Ebola Fund Remains Untouched, APC-PCC Tells Atiku

The All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council, has mentioned opposite to insinuations by the previous Vice President and presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress(ADC), the N10 billion accepted for the Ebola emergency in June stays untouched.

According to the council, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC), Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) and different companies concerned in surveillance had been spending different accessible assets.

Spokesperson of the APC Presidential Campaign Council,
Dele Alake made the clarifications in a press release issued in Abuja on Thursday.

The council decried that Atiku continues to foul up the political area with assertion after assertion dripping with insult and disrespect to the workplace of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

It referenced a press release credited to the previous vp on the newest public well being concern which opened with a title linking the President’s first identify to Ebola and questioning how the Presidential Task Force spent the N10 billion accepted for the emergency.

“We consider linking and rhyming President Bola Tinubu’s identify to Ebola solely dangers turning a critical well being concern right into a automobile to ridicule the President of the Federal Republic.

“The assertion confirmed patent ignorance concerning the virus and why the traveller from Uganda was not detected on arrival on the Abuja airport.

“For anybody contaminated with the virus, the incubation interval ranges from 2 to 21 days, with signs sometimes showing 8 to 10 days after publicity. An contaminated particular person can’t unfold or transmit Ebola to others till they actively develop signs.

“This is why it took the contaminated Nigerian some days earlier than reporting to the hospital, the place a number of assessments confirmed that the particular person had Ebola.

“On accountability, the Atiku camp should note that the N10 billion the President approved for the Ebola emergency in June remains untouched, as the NCDC, FAAN, and other agencies involved in surveillance have been spending other available resources,” to assertion learn in components.

The council declared that
the companies dealing with the disaster deserve applause for mounting a sturdy surveillance at entry factors to avert Ebola unfold every time it lands on our shores.

It mentioned the surveillance community tipped off the federal government concerning the index case and led to contact tracing of the affected person’s 44 contacts.

“A accountable opposition will applaud the Task Force for being responsive. But the Atiku camp all the time goes for reasonable photographs on the authorities.

“In this vein, we take into account his allegation {that a} ministerial briefing is meant to discourage attendance at marketing campaign rallies or voting speculative.

“Vice President Atiku can’t make such a critical allegation with out verifiable proof, particularly within the thick of electioneering. In any approach, the press convention didn’t elevate this concern, besides to enchantment to the general public to adjust to the Task Force’s introduced protocol.

“We advise Atiku Abubakar and his hirelings to avoid politicising public health issues. A time like this demands that all Nigerians, including the opposition, rally around the health authorities and professionals, communicate responsibly, avoid rumour-mongering, and follow the protocols advised by the Task Force to ensure Ebola does not become a national epidemic. Nigerians deserve, first of all, protection from the deadly disease,” the assertion added.