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Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, yesterday, gave an anticipatory approval to a non-existing request for the purchase of jets for President Bola Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima.
It followed widespread insinuations that yesterday’s sitting at the National Assembly would, besides other matters, witness lawmakers’ approval for the purchase of presidential jets for Tinubu and Shettima.
The Senate President affirmed that no request for new jets came before the chamber.
He, however, said the Senate would without delay approve any such request if it came, to avert the fate suffered by the vice president of Malawi and the president of Iran who both died in air crashes.
He declared that the Senate would not fold its hands and watch Tinubu die like the aforementioned.
Akpabio gave…
Source: Guardian Newspaper
