The opposition party said it received credible health intelligence and had researched into the reported planned lifting of the lockdown in the states, thus kicking against the decision of the Federal Government.
This was contained in a press release issued by its spokesperson, Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere.
The party said it conducted a detailed survey, analyzed the pattern of spread since the imposition of the initial lockdown and reviewed the guidelines for the lifting released by the Presidential Taskforce.
“Based on the outcome of the efforts, we have come to this unimpeachable conclusion that what Nigeria rather needs now is a national lockdown and not lifting of the partial lockdown. This is fundamentally because like we had highlighted in previous statements, a lockdown on its own without complementary action was not going to achieve much.”
The CUPP emphasised that the statistics of the pandemic in Nigeria also informed its position.
