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The former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu, has explained why him and his close aides which to under the COVID-19 pandemic test.
The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, whose sample and those of his close aides taken by officials of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, said he is doing it as a precautionary measure to be on a safer side.
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In a statement, the Media Adviser to the former governor, Tunde Rahman, confirmed the development, saying that “It was just a precaution; just to be on the safer side. It has not been established whatsoever that our Chief Security Officer, Alhaji Lateef Raheem, died from COVID-19. He was battling against diabetes and high blood pressure.
“We think he may have died from complications arising from this medical condition. But we are not the experts in this aspect. Thankfully, before he was buried, samples were taken from his body for COVID-19 test.
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“We are still awaiting the results. And as a precaution all of us have taken the tests and we are awaiting the results as well.
“This is the way it should be. No one should take chances with this pandemic. Coronavirus is real. And it is not a death sentence.”
Also, sample were taken from the remains of his late Chief Security Officer, Alhaji Lateef Raheem, by NCDC officials to test for the virus.
Raheem died of complications arising from diabetes and high blood pressure in Lagos, on Friday, and had since been buried in accordance with Muslim burial rites.
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Rahman said the action was however not an indication that the late CSO died from COVID-19 related sickness.
