COVID-19: Atiku’s Son To Be Discharged Soon
POLITICS DIGEST – The son of Nigeria’s former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, Mohammed, has expressed optimism that he would soon be discharged from isolation centre.
Mohammed, who tested positive for the coronavirus and is receiving treatment at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada, hoped that he would leave the hospital if his next test is favourable.
In two tweets by his father from video interview by Mohammed, the younger Atiku said he was on his 12th day in the isolation centre. Atiku in the tweet said: “My son shares, @Mo-Atiku shares his experience with COVID-19: “On the 20th of this month (March), I tested positive for COVID-19, and that night, I was brought to the isolation centre at the Gwagwalada University Teaching Hospital here where I have been since.
My son, @Mo_Atiku shares his experience with #COVIDー19. Together, we can learn from his experience and work to defeat this pandemic for our common good. pic.twitter.com/h4lJ7xIPsx
— Atiku Abubakar (@atiku) April 2, 2020
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“I am currently on my 12th day here; I hope to be out soon. “Perhaps, when my next test is taken and the results are favourable, I will be on my way out hopefully.” Mohammed said he was asymptomatic in the first few days of his infection, but he was nervous and had high level of anxiety, a little bit of trauma.
He admitted it was “fairly difficult” for him in those few days, especially being the index case in Abuja, but however, grew stronger in mind day by day.
“Thanks largely to all the goodwill, the prayers and support I got from the verse arrays of Nigerians. “Many people I do not know, but of course, more of this from my family, my friends, my associates and just a whole lot of people have been supportive. So we thank God, I am well and I am good,” he said.
He regretted that the people he lived with in an Estate in Abuja, joined in spreading fake information about him. “But I am not really here to talk about those specifics.
But I like to urge all of us to come together and see how we can support one another because this is a challenge to our society and it is a challenge to our future, it is a challenge to the present.
“So we need the people to come together and understand that this requires collective efforts, the sooner we overcome this. “The longer it takes to do that the impact in terms of fatality potentially and also the economic impact,” he advised.
Mohammed was optimistic that many people who contracted the virus would overcome it, but advised people to ignore the few who might not survive.
Mohammed also called on Nigerians to put aside politics and unite to defeat the pandemic. “We can do it and we can do it very effectively, if we work together,” he said.