{"id":24057,"date":"2020-04-18T17:06:50","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T17:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=24057"},"modified":"2020-04-18T17:06:50","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T17:06:50","slug":"cupp-reacts-to-abba-kyaris-death-tasks-nigerians-on-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/cupp-reacts-to-abba-kyaris-death-tasks-nigerians-on-covid-19","title":{"rendered":"CUPP reacts to Abba Kyari\u2019s death, tasks Nigerians on COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Coalition of United Political Parties(CUPP), has expressed sadness over the unfortunate death of President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s Chief of Staff, Mallam Abba Kyari.<\/p>\n<p>the Nigerian presidency, Saturday morning, announced the death of the Chief of Staff to the President.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential Spokesman, Femi Adesina, made the announcement in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe deceased had tested positive to the ravaging COVID-19 and had been receiving treatment. But he died on Friday, April 17, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMay God accept his soul. Funeral arrangements will be announced shortly,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>However, the opposition coalition parties, in a press release signed by its spokesperson, Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere, on Saturday, said, \u201cAt the breaking of the news that the Chief of Staff to the President, Mallam Abba Kyari had contracted the dreaded COVID-19, we prayed for his quick recovery. However, we are saddened by the news that he could not make it and has passed away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe CUPP weeps, as this is an irreparable loss to the President and capable of affecting him in the delivery of dividends of democracy to Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe pray for the repose of his soul and also that God Almighty grants the President the fortitude to bear the loss.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe use this opportunity to call on everyone who still takes this pandemic as a joke or does not believe in the calamity the virus is capable of causing to wake up now as all hands need to be on deck to defeat this monster.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Friday night, confirmed 51 new cases of COVID-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Coalition of United Political Parties(CUPP), has expressed sadness over the unfortunate death of President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s Chief of Staff, Mallam Abba Kyari. the Nigerian presidency, Saturday morning, announced the death of the Chief of Staff to the President. Presidential Spokesman, Femi Adesina, made the announcement in a statement. \u201cThe deceased had tested positive to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":11699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[1453,992,1425],"class_list":["post-24057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-coronavirus-in-nigeria","tag-cupp","tag-ncdc"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>CUPP reacts to Abba Kyari\u2019s death, tasks Nigerians on COVID-19 - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Coalition of United Political Parties(CUPP), has expressed sadness over the unfortunate death of President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s Chief of Staff,\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/cupp-reacts-to-abba-kyaris-death-tasks-nigerians-on-covid-19\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"CUPP reacts to Abba Kyari\u2019s death, tasks Nigerians on COVID-19\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Coalition of United Political Parties(CUPP), has expressed sadness over the unfortunate death of President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s Chief of Staff,\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/cupp-reacts-to-abba-kyaris-death-tasks-nigerians-on-covid-19\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-04-18T17:06:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/06\/Abba-Kyari-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"696\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"445\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/cupp-reacts-to-abba-kyaris-death-tasks-nigerians-on-covid-19#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/cupp-reacts-to-abba-kyaris-death-tasks-nigerians-on-covid-19\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"CUPP reacts to Abba Kyari\u2019s death, tasks Nigerians on COVID-19\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-04-18T17:06:50+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/cupp-reacts-to-abba-kyaris-death-tasks-nigerians-on-covid-19\"},\"wordCount\":267,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/cupp-reacts-to-abba-kyaris-death-tasks-nigerians-on-covid-19#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/06\/Abba-Kyari-1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Coronavirus in Nigeria\",\"CUPP\",\"NCDC\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/cupp-reacts-to-abba-kyaris-death-tasks-nigerians-on-covid-19#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/cupp-reacts-to-abba-kyaris-death-tasks-nigerians-on-covid-19\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/cupp-reacts-to-abba-kyaris-death-tasks-nigerians-on-covid-19\",\"name\":\"CUPP reacts to Abba Kyari\u2019s death, tasks Nigerians on COVID-19 - 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