Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi state has described the COVID 19 vaccine as a killer product which was produced in less than a year to kill people . In a viral video , the Kogi governor while addressing a crowd condemned the use of the vaccine, saying there is no cure for HIV and many other diseases troubling mankind and wondered how there would be a vaccine for coronavirus . He Said : “ Vaccines are being produced in less than one year of COVID - 19 . There is no vaccine yet for HIV, malaria , cancer, headache and for several other diseases that are killing us. They want to use the ( COVID - 19 ) vaccines to introduce the disease that will kill you and us. God forbid , ” he said. “ We should draw our minds back to what happened in Kano during the Pfizer polio vaccines that crippled and killed our children. We have learned our lessons .
“ If they say they are taking the vaccines in the public allow them take their vaccines . Don’ t say I said you should not take it but if you want to take it open your eyes before you take the vaccines . ” In his New Year broadcast , Bello said Kogi would not respond to the second wave of the virus with “ mass hysteria ” .