{"id":18124,"date":"2020-06-03T08:40:27","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T08:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=18124"},"modified":"2020-06-03T08:40:35","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T08:40:35","slug":"just-like-i-wrote-to-all-african-leaders-on-your-behalf-in-2015-ill-ensure-you-remain-afdb-president-buhari-tells-adesina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=18124","title":{"rendered":"Just like I wrote to all African leaders on your behalf in 2015, I\u2019ll ensure you remain AfDB President, Buhari tells Adesina"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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President Muhammadu Buhari said Tuesday Nigeria would stand solidly behind the President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr. Akinwumi Adesina<\/a>, in his re-election bid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The president, according to a statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, stated this during a closed-door meeting with the AfDB president at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said: \u201cIn 2015, when you were to be elected for the first term, I wrote to all African leaders, recommending you for the position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t say because you were a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) minister, and I belonged to the All Progressives Congress (APC), so I would withhold my support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI will remain consistent with you, because no one has faulted the step I took on behalf of Nigeria.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The president pledged that Nigeria would work with all other leaders and stakeholders in AfDB to ensure that Adesina was elected for a second term to built on his achievements during his first term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The African Union had already endorsed the incumbent AfDB president as sole candidate for the continent, but some other stakeholders are trying to ensure that he is re-investigated for alleged breach of the Bank\u2019s code of ethics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his remarks, Adesina, a former Minister of Agriculture, said the 16 allegations raised against him were trumped up, \u201cand without facts, evidence, and documents, as required by the rules and regulations of the bank.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He added that the Bank\u2019s Ethics Committee cleared him of all the allegations, and calls for fresh investigation by the United States were against the rules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said: \u201cMy defense ran into 250 pages, and not a single line was faulted or questioned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe law says that report of the Ethics Committee should be transmitted to the Chairman of Governors of the bank. It was done, and the governors upheld the recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat was the end of the matter, according to the rules. It was only if I was culpable that a fresh investigation could be launched.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was exonerated, and any other investigation would amount to bending the rules of the bank, to arrive at a predetermined conclusion.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He stressed that the motive was to soil his name, and that of the bank, saying he was proud to be a Nigerian, and thanked President Buhari for his unflinching support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou helped me to get elected in the first place, and you have supported me robustly all along, and the African Union unanimously endorsed my re-election,\u201d he declared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He commiserated with President Buhari<\/a> on the death of the former Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adesina also described the new Chief of Staff to the President, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, as \u201ca man of integrity, and of global standing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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