Fear of coronavirus: New photos show how Nigerian government officials now greet

  • Fear is currently gripping Nigerians and their leaders over the coronavirus that is spreading in Africa

  • As a result, top government officials now adopt the ‘elbow greeting’ as part of the means to curb the virus

  • Photographs show President Muhammadu Buhari, his deputy, Yemi Osinbajo, Babatunde Fashola and Nyesom Wike practising the greeting style

The fear of coronavirus and its current spread in Nigeria is creating a special level of consciousness, not just among the citizens, but their leaders.

To prevent contracting the virus with a root from Wuhan, China, Nigeria’s top government officials have adopted special methods of greeting.

Some days ago, it was the photographs of President Muhammadu Buhari and his deputy, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, that trended.

In the photographs, the president and Osinbajo, a professor of law, were seen avoiding a hand-shake and instead adopting the elbow-greeting.

Though they laughed as they greeted that way, their action could be described as more of an enlightenment campaign on the new way of life to be adopted by Nigerians to make curtailing the virus easy.

New photographs emerged of the governor of Rivers state, Nyesom Wike, and Babatunde Fashola, minister of works and housing, adopting the new greeting style.

“They had a closed-door meeting after which the Minister and officials of the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing embarked on visits to federal roads.

“The two officials also had the ‘coronavirus’ elbow greeting,” a short statement by the Rivers government said.

From: Legit

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