Olalekan Adetayo & Tunde Ajaja
State governors have begun preparation towards receiving and administering COVID-19 vaccines which will be delivered to the Federal Government by month end and later in the year.
As a result, the governors said they had begun plans to acquire freezers and cold chains for effective storage of the vaccines in their states.
The Chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum and Governor of Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi, disclosed this to State House correspondents on Friday after meeting with the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Fayemi said since there was no clarity on when the vaccines would arrive in Nigeria, he also discussed with the President on the need to accelerate the delivery.
He said, “Those of us at the receiving end in the states know that this is an issue we also need to ramp up our own preparedness, in terms of getting our states ready for vaccines storage, particularly the freezers and cold chains that will be required for that process.
“We need to get ourselves ready at the state level. The Federal Government can procure but we will receive and administer in our various states and there is a lot of work to be done in that respect.”
He also called on the Federal Government to expedite actions towards ensuring local production of COVID-19 vaccine instead of completely relying on the ones to be brought into the country.
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