{"id":204589,"date":"2020-03-25T21:12:23","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T20:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=204589"},"modified":"2020-03-25T21:16:50","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T20:16:50","slug":"coronavirus-should-unite-nigerians-shehu-sani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=204589","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus should unite Nigerians &#8211; Shehu Sani"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Former lawmaker representing Kaduna Central Senatorial district, Shehu Sani, said coronavirus should unite the people of Nigeria, since it\u2019s a collective challenge.<br \/>\nIn a statement he personally signed and made available to DAILY POST in Abuja on Wednesday, he said, the reality of coronavirus has shown the level of rot in Nigeria\u2019s healthcare as a result of years of neglect by the elite and political leaders.<br \/>\nThe former lawmaker did distribute items to some religious organisations and the Nigerian Correctional Service in Kaduna.<br \/>\nHe wrote:<br \/>\n\u201cCoronavirus is a challenge to the wisdom, resilience and spirit of Humanity.<br \/>\n\u201cCoronavirus should inspire us to stand together and fight together.<br \/>\n\u201cNigerian elite and political leaders have neglected and destroyed the public health care system over the years and we are now in the days of reckoning.<br \/>\n\u201cCoronavirus will not bring an end to the World but will surely return it to its beginning and basics where love, brotherhood and compassion was its spirit.<br \/>\n\u201cMythical Islamic and Christian religious leaders preaching against medical advice represent a serious threat to combating the spread of the virus in Nigeria.<br \/>\n\u201cIf Coronavirus were to be a poor man\u2019s disease, many could have perished and be buried in an unmarked grave.<br \/>\n\u201cIf Coronavirus had came during electioneering times,Political leaders could have distributed free and customized sanitizers, masks and ventilators.<br \/>\n\u201cNigerian political leaders should seek forgiveness from God and from their poor people.<br \/>\n\u201cThe World has forgotten God until Coronavirus came.<br \/>\n\u201cCoronavirus in the villa is not just a medical issue but a national security problem.<br \/>\n\u201cIts Calous and inhuman to tell people to stay at home without providing for them any form of palliative,relief or support to take care of their families.<br \/>\n\u201cDont just tell people to wash their hands and wear masks with empty stomach.\u201d<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former lawmaker representing Kaduna Central Senatorial district, Shehu Sani, said coronavirus should unite the people of Nigeria, since it\u2019s a collective challenge. In a statement he personally signed and made available to DAILY POST in Abuja on Wednesday, he said, the reality of coronavirus has shown the level of rot in Nigeria\u2019s healthcare as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":204590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,14173,1524],"class_list":["post-204589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-coronavirus","tag-shehu-sani"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/204590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}