Asks ex-VP to apologise over sale of national assets
The Senator representing Kogi West, Smart Adeyemi, yesterday, in a rare cross-country mobilisation of support for All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, his running mate, Senator Kashim Shettima and other standard-bearers, stormed Minna, the Niger State capital.
The three-term lawmaker and Chairman, Senate Committee on Federal Capital Territory (FCT), was in Minna for an interactive session with Kogi indigenes resident in the neighbouring North Central state, where he rolled out a multi-million naira empowerment initiative for the people.
Over 1000 Kogi indigenes resident in Niger benefited from the donation, which included cars, deep freezers, grinding machines, sewing machines etcetera, shared across the tribes – Ebira, Okun and Igala.
Addressing the indigenes, Adeyemi stated that Tinubu and Shettima remain the best combination to move Nigeria to “another level of progress, development and prosperity.”
HE, however, urged ex-Vice President Abubakar to apologise to Nigerians over sale of national assets, stating that the privitasation programme he masterminded allegedly “gave birth to poverty and insecurity.”
“Atiku should apologise to Nigerians because under his watch as Vice President to (President) Olusegun Obasanjo, the (defunct) Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) was sold at $16 billion and yet we don’t see power for 24 hours,” he claimed.
