Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n
The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 has dissociated itself from a statement that went round on Tuesday evening, attributing an alleged plan by the Federal Government to impose a national lockdown soon.<\/p>\n
The \u2018fake\u2019 statement said the government\u2019s decision came as a result of the increasing spread of Coronavirus in the country.<\/p>\n
The Coordinator of the PTF, Dr Sani Aliyu, warned the general public to be watchful, adding, \u201cMy attention has been drawn to a fake task force media statement, which was said to be signed by me, talking about a proposed complete lockdown of the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot only did the statement patently fail, it was badly written. It is unfortunate that a small number of persons continue to engage in mischief-making at such a serious time when we are talking about Coronavirus infection.<\/p>\n
\u201cI must reiterate that the task force has not released any official statement on a complete lockdown. I refer to the SGF\u2019s speech yesterday, on submitting formal findings to Mr President, this is yet to happen.<\/p>\n
\u201cI request that the public and the media take caution in circulating or publishing unverified news.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo be very clear, all formal statements on the emergency response are made through this daily press briefing or through official press statements.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Africa Press-Nigeria: The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 has dissociated itself from a statement that went round on Tuesday evening, attributing an alleged plan by the Federal Government to impose a national lockdown soon. The \u2018fake\u2019 statement said the government\u2019s decision came as a result of the increasing spread of Coronavirus in the country. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":22888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1438,1437],"tags":[1453,822],"class_list":["post-24229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-coronavirus-in-nigeria","category-files","tag-coronavirus-in-nigeria","tag-nigerian-government"],"yoast_head":"\n