The Personal Assistant to President Buhari on New Media, Bashir Ahmad,  has slammed popular Nigerian artist Zlatan Ibile for making a joke of the new Coronavirus cases.

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Sunday confirmed eighty-six new cases of Coronavirus bringing the total number to 627.

After the news was shared on Twitter, singer Zlatan reacted to the post with laughing emojis.

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Reacting, Bashir who felt it wasn’t right to make a joke out of the increasing number of confirmed cases in the country, called the singer out, stating that the coronavirus pandemic is a matter of life and death.

He said ”Zlatan, as President Buhari stated in his national broadcast on April 13th, ‘this is not a joke, it’s a matter of life and death.’’

Recall that the sudden increase in the number of coronavirus cases recorded in Lagos also attracted mixed reactions from Nigerians on social media