Since that House Committee’s report was made public, the issue of acquiring new aircraft for Tinubu and Shettima became a controversy and a running story in the mainstream media and social media. That is normal. But it became a mischief when the President of the Senate, Godswill Obot Akpabio was unfairly dragged into the controversy.
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The Leader of the Senate, Senator Opeyemi Bamidele who made this known during the plenary session said there is an attempt by fifth columnists to destabilise the country.
Akpabio who stated this at the plenary on Thursday, clarified that there was no request for the approval of the purchase of a presidential jet before the House.
I was not old enough to cognise what happened during the Nigerian civil war so, pardon my comparative shortcoming.
Why do Nigerian public officials always fail to see the divide between the public and the private? Perhaps taking a cue from their parents, children of successive Nigerian presidents have also made this a pastime. A recent example is the reported cruising in Nigeria’s presidential jet by the president’s son, Seyi Tinubu.
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has said the private use of the presidential jet by members of President Muhammadu Buhari’s immediate family is not in accordance with the law.