Kogi State senators and House of Representative members have said that they are yet to make a decision on whether or not they would receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
The leader of the Kogi lawmakers’ forum in the National Assembly, Smart Adeyemi, in an interview with newsmen, said the federal legislators from the state had yet to take a decision on the matter.
Adeyemi, who is also the Vice-Chairman of the Northern Senators Forum, said all the 12 National Assembly members from the state were solidly behind the governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, who has been insistent that there is no COVID-19 in the state.
According to him, “The Kogi State legislators in the National Assembly have not thought of taking the vaccines yet, but if ever we will take it at all, it is because we are in Abuja where there is COVID-19 but there is no COVID in our state.”
He also warned Nigerians to cease berating Yahaya Bello for claiming that COVID-19 had not affected anybody in the state’s, stressing that the claims are true.
“I don’t know the magic in Kogi State because the coronavirus is not killing our people.
“If it is leading to deaths in the state, I would be the first person to cry out and disagree with our governor but our people are not dying and they are not falling ill.
“I agree with our governor that there is no COVID-19 in Kogi State. If the disease is there, people would have been dying. It appears COVID-19 is afraid of the Kogi people. To a large extent, we are convinced that our governor knows what he is doing and saying.”
The senator added that even Ministry of Health officials told him that they did not know what was happening in Kogi that was keeping people from dying from COVID-19.
“We cannot be killing our people just to justify that the disease is real. We are not just saying yes to our governor but we are also saying yes to him because nobody has died of the disease.”
