Senate President Lawan Receives First AstraZeneca Vaccine at National Assembly

• Senator Lawan is the first person in the National Assembly to be vaccinated
• Lawan urges Nigerians to get vaccinated
• Lawan tasked the COVID-19 task force to secure more vaccine variants

Senate President Ahmed Lawan on Tuesday became the first member of the National Assembly to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.

EKO HOT BLOG gathered that the jab was given to him by his personal physician, Dr Muhammad Usman in the presence of other senators led by Yahaya Abdullahi.

After the exercise was completed, Lawan was presented with his vaccination certificate by Senator Ibrahim Oloriegbe, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health.

Lawan thereafter urged Nigerians to get themselves vaccinated.

“The COVID-19 pandemic is real. We are still facing that challenge and therefore I urge all Nigerians especially those within the range specified by the health authorities and those at the frontline that we make ourselves available,” Lawan stated

“Even though this is a voluntary thing but it is advisable that as many Nigerians as possible should take the vaccine.

“We need to go on more sensitisation and advocacy. We need to make this vaccine available in all areas, different crannies of this country. Let it not be limited to areas that are accessible only.

“We have areas that are not very much accessible in the riverine areas in the Niger Delta, in the northernmost part of the country, the desertified areas.

“We need to reach out to the people. We should convince them. We should use the system that we have used before in getting our people vaccinated over the year.

“Our traditional rulers, our traditional institutions have played very significant roles in enlightenment. Our clergies. Our imams. This is something that we have to do because Nigeria is not an island. We are part of the global community.

“I believe that at the end of the day, we can only achieve the herd immunity that is desired if we are able to reach at least 70 to 75 per cent of those that are supposed to be vaccinated in the country.”

Lawan concluded his remarks by thanking the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 for securing the vaccines. He asked the PTF to secure more vaccines and varieties of them as well.

This comes on the back of a pause in the distribution of the AstraZeneca vaccine in a number of countries globally after complaints of blood clots were reported to have occurred in some people who took the jab produced by the Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical company.

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