Blackmail, according to Senate President Godswill Akpabio, will not cause them to reconsider their decision to buy Mr. Tinubu a new presidential jet.
At the Red Chamber on Thursday, Akpabio disclosed this. Akpabio declared that if the proposal for a new presidential plane comes before the National Assembly, it would not yield to coercion and would not hesitate to take the appropriate action.
He said that while there had not yet been a request for the parliamentarians to consider buying Bola Tinubu new presidential jets, there were rumours circulating that the Senate had approved the purchase.
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In his words, ” Somebody called me from the BBC, that what I said in Senator Mongunu’s house was false and should be disregarded, that I was now saying that I would not approve.
” That is what you can call anticipated blackmail. The professors of the story know very well that maybe there is a problem with the presidential fleet.
“And so they are now trying to do anticipated blackmail to tell us that ‘If they bring it, do not look into it”.
He continued, “So, I think that we should ignore them because of what we are doing here. I read the Tinubu’s correspondence to us, nothing was touching on a plane or no plane, but I can tell you that when you hear stories such as the death of the Vice President of Malawi as a result of a defective plane and then you hear stories such as the death of the President of Iran as a result of defective aircraft, we shouldn’t ever sit and allow such to be at the ocean.
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“It wouldn’t be. The Senate is very responsible. The National Assembly is very responsible. We will look into issues that will benefit the governance of the country.
“Irrespective of anticipatory blackmail, because those people know very well that something like that might come in the future, and if it’s a necessity, the Senate will look into it. But there is nothing like that before us now”, he added.
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