As State governors prepare to receive the AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccines in the coming days, Yahaya Bello of Kogi State has disclosed that he would not receive the vaccine.
The governor who spoke on Channels Television’s Politics Today’ programme said he would not allow the people of the state to be used as “guinea pigs”.
According to him: “Coronavirus is not our business in Kogi State. We have more pertinent issues that need to be attended to in Kogi State.
“COVID-19 is just a minute aspect of what we are treating or handling in Kogi State; there have been outbreaks of Lassa Fever and Yellow Fever and those were handled without making noise about it.
“As far as I am concerned, I as a person, I do not need to take vaccines. There is nothing wrong with me. I am hale and hearty. I am 100 percent healthy, I won’t take any vaccines,” the Governor said.
He went on to note that he sees nothing wrong if the President and his Vice receive the vaccines on Saturday.
“President Buhari is the leader of this country. I respect him; all of us respect him so much. We love him and he is leading by example. If he needs to take the COVID-19 vaccine and he takes it, it is a welcome development, but I will not make my people guinea pigs,” Bello added.
