Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom’s aides have continued to test positive for the dreaded COVID-19 disease.
The aides who are positive at the moment are the governor’s personal physician, the aide de camp, and the orderly.
In a statement on Monday, the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Terver Akase, who was reacting to the report that Ortom’s absence had paralyzed government activities said the positive status of the personal aides had warranted the governor to return into self-isolation.
The deputy governor and chairman of the state action committee on COVID-19, Benson Abounu, had during the armed forces interdenominational service January 10, 2021, had announced that his principal had gone into self-isolation when a permanent secretary and his family members tested positive for the disease.
Speaking on the latest development, the CPS said, “We earlier stated that following the COVID-19 status of some of the governor’s close aides, including his personal physician, his aide de camp and orderly, he had to go into self-isolation as the protocol on prevention of the virus demands.
Akase said that Governor Ortom has been in working isolation because he tested negative for COVID-19.