The President, Mohammed Buhari and the Vice -President Prof Yemi Osinbajo have been vaccinated with AstraZeneca Vaccine.
They were both vaccinated today (Saturday). While Buhari was vaccinated by his personal physician, Dr Suhayb Sanusi, at about 11.51 am at a brief ceremony at the New Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja, his vice received his shot of the vaccine through his personal physician, Dr Nicholas Audifferen.
The President and his deputy were the first among the nation’s strategic leaders to take the vaccine after some frontline health workers at the treatment centre of the National Hospital, Abuja, were vaccinated yesterday in Abuja.
Buhari after receiving the vaccine said, “Today, as a demonstration of leadership and faith in the safety and efficacy of the vaccines, I have received my first jab and I wish to commend it to all eligible Nigerians, to do the same so that we can be protected from the virus.”
“I wish to commend it to all eligible Nigerians, to do the same so that we can be protected from the virus. I urge all state governments, traditional and religious leaders, to take the lead in the mobilization effort within their environment and spheres of influence.
“The vaccine offers hope for a safe country, free of Coronavirus. I similarly urge all eligible Nigerians to present themselves and be vaccinated in accordance with the order of priority already mapped out, at the various authorized designated centres only”, he added.