Bauchi Governor, Bala Mohammed, tests positive for Coronavirus

BY OUR EDITOR

Bauchi State Governor, Senator Bala Mohammed, has tested positive for Coronavirus, his office has announced.

The governor’s Senior Special Assistant on Media, Mukhtar Gidado, in a statement issued Tuesday said that the result of the governor’s test returned positive.

Mohammed had gone into self-isolation Monday when it was announced that the son of former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, whom he had come in contact with, had tested positive for coronavirus.

“This is to inform the general public that the result of the six initial tests carried out by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on His Excellency, Sen. Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed, his family and aides that accompanied him to Lagos is out.

“Of the six initial tests carried out, one sample was confirmed positive of COVID-19. The positive result happened to be that of His Excellency, Senator Bala Abdukadir Mohammed, the Executive Governor of Bauchi State,” the statement read.

READ: Bauchi Governor in self-isolation following contact with Atiku’s son

See tweet by Chief of Staff to the governor, Ladan Salihu:

The Governor, Bala Mohammed has tested positive to COVID-19 out of the 6 samples taken in Bauchi. Please put him in your prayers. May Allah SWT heal him comprehensively. Amin pic.twitter.com/cUchbJOOrV

— Ladan Salihu (@LadanSalihu1) March 24, 2020