Following the claims by Kogi State governor, Yahaya Bello, that COVID-19 vaccines are ‘meant to kill” ,the Nigeria’s Governors Forum (NGF) has disregarded and distance it’s self from such claim by the governor.

The Kogi state governor Bello, has repeatedly disregarded COVID-19 protocol and denied the existence of the virus.

Gov. Bello had told a crowd in a viral video to reject the vaccines.

His words: “Vaccines are being produced in less than one year of COVID-19.

“There is no vaccine yet for HIV, malaria, cancer, headache and for several other diseases that are killing us.

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“They want to use the (COVID-19) vaccines to introduce the disease that will kill you and us. God forbid.”

The governor has held such claims without verifiable evidence.

In a reaction to Gov. Bellows claim, Kayode Fayemi, governor of Ekiti state, the NGF chairman, in a statement after the forum’s first virtual meeting for 2021 on Thursday, described Bello’s misleading statement as an “ill-fated pronouncement”.

The statement reads: “On the ill-fated pronouncement made by a member of the forum regarding the COVID-19 vaccine in a national daily, the forum totally and categorically dissociated itself from the statement,”

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“The forum emphasised that it will continue to be informed and guided by science and will ensure that every decision it takes will help retains public and professional trust and is not compromised by conflicts of interest.”

The NGF also announced that a team of experts led by Oyewale Tomori, professor of virology, has been set up to “advise the state governors on the procurement and administration of coronavirus vaccines in the country”.

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