Buhari To Extend Lockdown In 7.00 P.M Broadcast

President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to formally extend the lockdown in some sections of the country during a nationwide broadcast to the nation on Monday, at 7 p.m.

The President’s spokesman, Femi Adesina in a statement in Abuja on Monday, advised Television, radio and other electronic media outlets to hook up to the network services of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) respectively for the broadcast.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the President had on March 29 addressed the nation over the novel Coronavirus pandemic where he directed the cessation of all movements in Lagos, Ogun and the FCT for an initial period of 14 days with effect from March 30, to check the spread of the disease.

Expectation of an extension of the lockdown was conveyed by the president’s Easter message issued at the weekend by Mallam Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to the President in which Nigerians were called upon to make more sacrifices to curtail the coronavirus pandemic.

He had said:

“We realize that today, there will be sons and daughters unable to visit their parents, and elders that are isolated from young ones. And there will be those who live day-to-day, eating as they earn, who face real and present suffering,” he said.

“No elected government could ask more of the citizens of the country that elected them than today we ask of you. But we must ask you – once more – to observe restrictions on movement where they are in place, and follow the instructions of our scientists and medical advisers: stay home, wash your hands, save lives.

“The freedoms we ask you to willingly forsake today will only last as long as our scientific advisers declare they are necessary. But they are essential – world over – to halt and defeat the spread of this virus.”

The expectation of the extension of the lockdown also follows the president’s apprehension and caution to governors over the last weekend against the lifting of the lockdown.

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