President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday received the Madagascan native formulation against the COVID-19 pandemic.
The President reiterated that he will listen to science before allowing traditional or any new medicines to be administered on Nigerians.
President Muhammadu Buhari Saturday at the State House, Abuja, received the Madagascan native formulation against the #Covid-19 pandemic, and reiterated that he will listen to science before allowing traditional or any new medicines to be administered on Nigerians.
— Garba Shehu (@GarShehu) May 16, 2020
Speaking at a meeting with President Umaro Sissoco Embalo of Guinea Bissau who brought along with him to the Presidential Villa samples of the traditional medicine as shared to African nations by Madagascar, President Buhari said his position on all such herbal or traditional medicinal postulates had remained the same.
On the main reason for his visit, President Embalo said having stabilized his country after the tussles that attended the general elections won by him, he had come to seek counsel from President Buhari on his plan for a government of national unity and a proposed war against corruption in his country.
He also said that his new government met a country beset with a number of issues and problems, the resolution of which would require tremendous assistance from Nigeria.
In response to the Guinee bissau’s President demands, the Nigerian leader commended General Embalo on his confirmation as President and for stabilizing the country and restated the determination of Nigeria to keep West Africa politically stable and promised to support the new government in Guinea Bissau.
President Buhari also used the opportunity of the visit to praise the good work that the President of Niger Republic, Mahamadou Issoufou, who is the current Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, is doing in the sub-region, and commended him for keeping him informed of all that is happening around.
Recall that the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 had on Thursday, during the national briefing on the state of the virus in the country, said Nigeria was not in a hurry to pick its share of the COVID-19 cure known as COVID organic offered by the Republic of Madagascar, rather is will concentrate on the development of home-grown cure.
