The Chief Medical Director of the Federal Medical Center, Lokoja, Dr Olatunde Alabi, has said that no close aide of the state governor, Alhaji Yahya Bello, died, on Monday, due to COVID-19 at the Federal Medical Center, Lokoja.
It was speculated, on Monday, that an aide to the governor died of coronavirus at the Federal Medical Center Lokoja.
However, the Chief Medical Director of the Federal Medical Center, Dr Olatunde Alabi, debunked the rumours making rounds.
He stated that it was a rumour and that the people of the state should disregard it adding that they never received outpatient suffering from coronavirus pandemic.
Also speaking, the state Commissioner for Information, Mr Kingsley Fanwo, said there is no iota of truth that an aide to the governor died of coronavirus.
However, Tribune Online, investigation gathered that a security officer working with one of the security agencies in the state died at the state Specialist Hospital in Lokoja.
According to a source close to the deceased, the patient did not die of coronavirus but that he has been sick in the last five years.
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