{"id":13131,"date":"2020-05-13T09:02:50","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T09:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=13131"},"modified":"2020-05-13T09:02:58","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T09:02:58","slug":"covid-19-buhari-did-not-order-madagascar-cure-nigeria-only-picked-up-its-allocation-aide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=13131","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Buhari did not order Madagascar cure, Nigeria only picked up its allocation \u2014Aide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/www.ripplesnigeria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Tolu-Ogunlesi.jpg\" alt=\"COVID-19: Buhari did not order Madagascar cure, Nigeria only picked up its allocation \u2014Aide\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Tolu Ogunlesi, one of the media aides attached to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ripplesnigeria.com\/tag\/Buhari\/\">President Muhammadu Buhari<\/a>&nbsp;has denied reports that the presidency ordered the purported COVID-19 virus cure from Madagascar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a tweet posted on his account on Tuesday, Ogunlesi said that his principal did not \u201corder\u201d the reported COVID-19 cure from Madagascar but explained that Nigeria simply picked up its allocation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He wrote on Twitter; \u201cWorth saying again: Nigeria did not \u201corder\u201d the alleged Covid-19 cure from Madagascar. We got an allocation. Many other African countries did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are simply picking up our allocation. And it will be subjected to standard NAFDAC procedures. No validation no use. It\u2019s that simple,\u201d he tweeted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This came after the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Tuesday faulted the Federal Government\u2019s decision to approve the importation of Madagascan herbal therapy for treatment of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ripplesnigeria.com\/tag\/COVID-19\">COVID-19<\/a>&nbsp;patients in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The party in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, also chided President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s administration for allegedly failing to make the most of homegrown remedies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The PDP stressed that while it has nothing against any genuine effort to secure therapeutics for COVID-19, it believed similar solutions abounded in Nigeria but had remained untapped because of the failure of the current administration to heed to wise counsel to look inwards for answers to the COVID-19 conundrum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tolu Ogunlesi, one of the media aides attached to&nbsp;President Muhammadu Buhari&nbsp;has denied reports that the presidency ordered the purported COVID-19 virus cure from Madagascar. In a tweet posted on his account on Tuesday, Ogunlesi said that his principal did not \u201corder\u201d the reported COVID-19 cure from Madagascar but explained that Nigeria simply picked up its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[27,6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>COVID-19: Buhari did not order Madagascar cure, Nigeria only picked up its allocation \u2014Aide &raquo; WatchDog Plus Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=13131\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Odofin\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=13131#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"COVID-19\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=27\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"COVID-19: Buhari did not order Madagascar cure, Nigeria only picked up its allocation \u2014Aide\"}]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"COVID-19: Buhari did not order Madagascar cure, Nigeria only picked up its allocation \u2014Aide &raquo; WatchDog Plus Media","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=13131","author":"Odofin","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=13131#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"COVID-19","item":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=27"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"COVID-19: Buhari did not order Madagascar cure, Nigeria only picked up its allocation \u2014Aide"}]}]}},"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Odofin","author_link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?author=2"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=27\" rel=\"category\">COVID-19<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=6\" rel=\"category\">Health<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Tolu Ogunlesi, one of the media aides attached to&nbsp;President Muhammadu Buhari&nbsp;has denied reports that the presidency ordered the purported COVID-19 virus cure from Madagascar. 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