The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio had said that no amount of blackmail will make them change their mind on purchasing a new presidential jet for Mr. Tinubu.
Akpabio made this known on Thursday at the Red Chamber. Akpabio said the National Assembly would not succumb to blackmail to shy away from doing the needful if the request for a new presidential jet comes before it.
According to him, there were claims making rounds that the Senate had approved the purchase of new presidential jets for Bola Tinubu when there was no such request yet before the lawmakers.
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.
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” 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.
“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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