Governor Abdullahi Ganduje As cases of Covid-19 index keeps increasing in daily basis in Kano State, the state governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, seems to careless about the vulnerability of the state citizens to the virus as he appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to ease the 14-day total lockdown imposed on the state because of the holy month of Ramadan.
Buhari had on Monday during a nationwide broadcast ordered a total lockdown on Kano following the rise of COVID-19 cases and the strange deaths in the state.
But Ganduje, while speaking on Thursday, while inaugurating a panel of experts to support the state task force technical committee, said it is important to relax the lockdown for a while in order to ease the hardship in the state, especially in the holy month of Ramadan.
He said, “We would engage the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 to seek permission to relax the total lockdown imposed on Kano.