{"id":206006,"date":"2020-03-31T17:30:51","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T16:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=206006"},"modified":"2020-03-31T17:31:03","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T16:31:03","slug":"coronavirus-alao-akala-dare-buhari-react-as-makinde-tests-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=206006","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Alao-Akala, Dare, Buhari react as Makinde tests positive"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Minister of Sports, Sunday Dare, a former governor of Oyo State, Adebayo Alao-Akala and Sen. Abdulfatai Buhari (APC-Oyo North) have wished Governor Seyi Makinde a speedy recovery.<br \/>\nMakinde on Monday announced that he tested positive to coronavirus.<br \/>\nIn separate statements, the trio prayed thay Makinde would overcome the situation.<br \/>\nDare expressed confidence that the governor would resume his official duties in no time.<br \/>\n\u201cYour Excellency. I am sorry to hear about your test result on coronavirus. I pray God will heal you and will see you through the period of isolation.<br \/>\n\u201cThank you for the courage to be open about it and surely you will bounce back fully ready to continue to govern Oyo State.\u201d<br \/>\nDare noted that he was certain that the governor would overcome the condition having gone into self-isolation.<br \/>\nAlao-Akala called on residents to pray fervently for an end to the global pandemic.<br \/>\n\u201cI am saddened to receive the news of Gov. Makinde testing positive for coronavirus, Jehovah Ropheka : The Lord our Healer will heal you (Exodus 15:26).<br \/>\n\u201cI pray to Almighty God to heal you and protect your family as you go through self- isolation and proper treatment.\u201d<br \/>\nThe former governor said COVID-19 could be managed in the absence of a confirmed cure, stressing that the disease was not a death sentence.<br \/>\nHe appealed to Nigerians to obey guidelines, maintain hygiene standards and take other precautionary measures.<br \/>\nBuhari, in his reaction, said he was confident that Makinde would pull through.<br \/>\n\u201cOur thoughts and prayers are with His excellency, Gov. Makinde, and his family during this period. Almighty Allah will grant him quick recovery.\u201d he added.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of Sports, Sunday Dare, a former governor of Oyo State, Adebayo Alao-Akala and Sen. Abdulfatai Buhari (APC-Oyo North) have wished Governor Seyi Makinde a speedy recovery. Makinde on Monday announced that he tested positive to coronavirus. In separate statements, the trio prayed thay Makinde would overcome the situation. Dare expressed confidence that the governor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":206007,"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":[2658,1165,8871],"class_list":["post-206006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-oyo","tag-seyi-makinde"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206006","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=206006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/206007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}