President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr Akinwumi Adesina, has hit back at British lawmaker, Tom Tugendhat, who accused General Yakubu Gowon (retd) of “stealing a half of Nigeria’s Central Bank.”
In a tweet on Thursday, Adesina said that the former Head of State was a man of integrity.
He also said that accusing the elder statesman of corruption was “misinformation”.
Tugendhat had made the claim during a debate at the UK Parliament on Nigeria last Monday (November 23, 2020).
The UK parliamentarians were debating a petition calling for sanctions against Nigerian government and Army officials for violating human rights of Nigerians during and after the #EndSARS protests.
Adesina tweeted: “Be careful of misinformation! H.E. General Yakubu Gowon, Nigeria’s former Head of State, is a man of great honor, decency, honesty, amazing simplicity, humility and integrity. I know him. A great and admirable elder statesman of Nigeria. His honesty and integrity are impeccable.”
Gowon himself slammed Tugendhat in an interview with the BBC, dismissing the lawmaker’s claim as “rubbish”.
“I don’t know where he got that rubbish from. I served Nigeria diligently and my records are there for all to see,” the octogenarian stated.
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