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COVID-19: Ondo gives civil servants two-week ultimatum to get vaccinated

Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Adamu has said Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State is currently incapacitated and receiving treatment abroad. Akeredolu is understand to be suffering from leukemia and has been off duty for over a month to attend to his health.  But Adamu at a meeting between the national leadership of the party and APC state chairmen, said the governor is incapacitated. “We regret to announce the extreme incapacity of the Governor of Ondo state who we understand has been hospitalised overseas. We wish and pray for him for a speedy recovery,” Adamu was quoted as saying by Daily Trust. He also said the list of ministers to serve in the government of President Bola Tinubu was not ready as the president is still consulting wide to get the best team. According to him, Tinubu had just begun "and he is doing his extensive consultation before coming up with his nominees for ministers." He said the nomination of the ministers would come first, adding that "They will go through their screening until they are pronounced after they have been submitted by Mr. President. And Mr President will formally appoint his Ministers and swear them in."
Governor Rotimi Akeredolu

Ondo State government has given civil servants in the state a two-week ultimatum to get vaccinated for the dreaded COVID-19 virus.

This was contained in a circular on Friday by the Permanent Secretary, Service Matters, Mr O. J. Afolabi.

She noted that henceforth, a vaccination card has to be tendered before workers were able to access some facilities.

The permanent secretary noted that the move was part of ways the government is trying to curb the spread of the virus in the state.

“Following the outbreak of Delta Variant, a subsequent third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, it has become imperative for government to direct all categories of public servants to take Covid-19 vaccination within two weeks from the date of this circular,” the circular read.

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