Federal Government said it spurned the request of five governors to fly into Abuja because of the Federal Government’s decision to shut all the airports over the Coronavirus pandemic.
Minister of of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, while responding to questions at Presidential Task Force briefing on COVID-19, said every single flight approved will be an essential flight and 98 percent of them would be connected to COVID-19 while one percent may be either repatriation or request from the diplomatic community
“There is no exception to governors, I have denied several of such flights including two governors from South-South, two from South-East. Meanwhile, three of them are members of the All Progressive Congress (APC) and one is from North Central.
“Just to say that once you see a flight approved, it is diligently done, it must be essential, it must be COVID-19 related or some other flights like essential cargo that will bring in medicines or equipments or something related to our own wellbeing like food and so on and so forth. So please trust and bear with us it while this last, it will be short.”
