Fashola speaks on dual citizenship of Tinubu
The Minister for Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola said the Nigerian constitution allows the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as well as Nigerian citizens to have a dual citizenship.
Fashola stated this in an interview on Channels TV on Sunday.
According to the minister, having dual citizenship would not prevent a citizen from becoming Nigerian president.
Asked if he thought the Nigerian president is allowed to have dual citizenship, according to the constitution, Fashola said, “It is place of birth; if you are born to Nigerian parents! I will check but I doubt if Nigeria’s constitution makes you disentitled if you have dual citizenship because the constitution allows you to have dual citizenship.”
“The last time I checked, I think the Nigerian constitution allows you to have dual citizenship, doesn’t it?”
The former governor of Lagos further stated, “Dual citizenship, I know he carries a Nigerian passport, I don’t know about dual citizenship, I know he resided abroad when he went on exile. I don’t know if they gave him American citizenship there. What does that have to do with the results of the election?
“What does his citizenship have to do with the results of the election?” he said.
Keyamo blasts Nigerian youths over attitude towards older generations
The Minister of State, Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, has carpeted Nigerian youths over the rate of alleged disrespect towards the older generation on social media.
The Minister lamented that it was appalling that the youths were justifying their disrespectful nature under the guise of being angry with the older generation for mismanaging the affairs of the country.
The APC chieftain insisted that it was quite ironical that the youths turned around and built a movement around a character from the same generation they despised.
Keyamo argued that the real reason for the movement was the deep-seated tribal and religious sentiments which have been packaged by the youths to appear as something else.
In a tweet on Monday, Keyamo wrote, “one of the most confounding things you read on social media is the dubious justification for the abusive and disrespectful nature of some of these younger elements to the older generation, and which is that they are ‘justifiably’ angry with the older generation for allegedly mismanaging the affairs of our country, so the older generation does not deserve any ‘respect’.
“And then, guess what? That ‘anger’ now propels them to build a movement around a character who is straight out of the same generation they complain about and who, until last year, was part and parcel of one of the political parties housing these characters they complain about.
“Whereas in actual fact, the latent reasons for the ‘movement’ are deep-seated tribal and religious sentiments carefully packaged as a movement by ‘angry youths’, and many gullible young ones were initially misled into this political guillotine. The contradiction is so profound that it clearly depicts the thoughtlessness, the brainlessness and the directionless exploits of the headless mob!”
