The senior lawyer gave the
explanation to the Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and other Financing
Institutions during his screening as a nominee into the board of the Nigerian
Deposit Insurance Corporation, NDIC.
The Chairman of the Committee,
Senator Rafiu Ibrahim (PDP Kwara South), had reminded Keyamo of his recent
comment that Atiku Abubakar is corrupt.
But the committee chairman was
called to order by Senators on the platform of the ruling All Progressives
Congress, APC, who threatened to vote against him.
Senator Ibrahim while trying to
drill Keyamo on the comment had said ”I want to refer to your words when you
said the presidential candidate of the PDP is corrupt. I think you may have to
wait until you’re done with the job before you can sit on the board. This is
something that I saw myself. You just have to educate us properly on how you
can balance the two.”
However, APC members of the
committee like Danjuma Goje ( Gombe Central), Umar Kurfi ( Katsina Central),
Fatimah Raji Rasaki ( Ekiti Central) etc, disagreed with Senator Ibrahim by
warning him not to mix politics with the screening exercise.
Senator Goje in his reaction
said, ”I want to observe and caution the chairman that in as much as we belong
to different political parties, we shouldn’t bring too much politics on this
matter. In fact, we have more APC members here, so if we want to vote, we can
vote against you. Our government is doing a lot and we’re doing everything
possible to see that things are done well.”
Also reacting, Senator Raji Rasaki
said, “I thing what we’re doing should have nothing to do with politics. I
believe Mr Keyamo if cleared will be a very good assets for the NDIC while
Kurfi submitted that Keyamo is an asset that must be allowed to serve on the
NDIC board.”
Explaining why he called Atiku
corrupt, Keyamo said, “When the Senate of the United States came out to say
that somebody brought slush fund into the US and as such the person is corrupt,
we can call the person corrupt. That’s what we relied on. But we can’t call such
person a convict”.
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Kayamo i think you are mad infact you dont know what to say
ReplyDeleteAtiku's messenger I think you're stupid for that comment you made. Learn to respect your elders next time.
DeleteKeyamo will vomit all the money you chop under Buhari after 2019 because definitely Buhari will never never return again
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