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The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed the report that the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Tanko Muhammad, tested positive for COVID-19.
The CJN, who was missing at the initiation of 72 new Senior Advocates of Nigeria held in Abuja on Tuesday, was accounted for to have gotten the infection and getting treatment at an undisclosed emergency clinic in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE).
In Justice Mohammed’s nonappearance, the occasion was managed by the most elevated positioned Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Olabode Rhodes-Vivour.
The Director of Information at the summit court, Dr. Festus Akande, who responded to the case in an explanation, said no clinical report has been made accessible demonstrating that Justice Mohammed had COVID-19.
The spokesman had in an earlier statement dismissed a report that the CJN was critically sick.
He said: “In furtherance to the press statement earlier issued, I wish to state categorically clear that there is no medical report so far made available by anybody indicating that the Hon. CJN has tested positive for COVID-19
“Those peddling the rumour should go a step further to confirm from their sources and equally obtain the copy of whatever laboratory test result they are relying on.
“As of this moment of issuing this statement, no one has so far shown me or any other person in Supreme Court a copy of the test result they are referring to in the report.”