Covid-19: El-Rufai not in intensive care unit – COS

The Chief of Staff to Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna state, Muhammad Sani Dattijo, has said that his boss is not in the Intensive Care Unit as is being speculated on the social media.

Dattijo in a tweet posted on Monday, revealed that el-Rufai is working from the isolation centre where he is undergoing treatment for Covid-19.

Dattijo posted a photo of himself and el-Rufai chatting live with the caption, “Mallam Nasir el-Rufai at 2:06pm, Monday 20 April. Alive and Well. Working from isolation. To all the folks tweeting about him in ICU, you shall see it before he does insha Allah.”

The governor via his Twitter handle on March 28, revealed that he tested positive for Coronavirus, following which five other people have tested positive in Kaduna state.

He recently updated that he has not been discharged as four of the six positive cases were discharged last week after testing negative twice to the dreaded Covid-19.

El-Rufai is one of the high profile personalities who tested positive for Coronavirus in Nigeria.  

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