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Presidency Denies Claim that Tinubu Draged Eminent Nigerian to Paris’ Arbitration Proceeding

by Nwabuko

By Our Reporter

ABUJA (PRECISE POST) – Presidency on Saturday night denied claim making rounds on social media to the effect that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has forced former President Muhammadu Buhari to testify at the arbitration proceeding in Paris.

In a statement signed by the Special Adviser to the President (Information and Strategy), Bayo Onanuga released on his X account, the presidential spokesperson said:

“The attention of the Presidency has been drawn to some fake news on social media about an arbitration proceeding in Paris to which the Nigerian Government is a party. 
 
The private proceeding, which should not have been reported in the media, is entirely confidential until the international arbitrators decide.
 
While respecting the confidentiality of the proceeding, we wish to state categorically that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has not forced anyone to testify for or to refrain from testifying against Nigeria. 
 
All the eminent Nigerians involved in Nigeria’s defence are doing so willingly and out of sheer patriotism and conviction. 
 
President  Tinubu and the entire country are grateful to them.

Precise Post recalls that on Saturday evening, an online news platform reported that former President Muhammadu Buhari had been summoned before a court in Paris to testify in an arbitration proceeding over the $6bn Mambilla power contract dispute.

The report claimed that Buhari had been “hauled before the court on Saturday for breaching the terms of a power generation and distribution contract awarded to Sunrise Power and Transmission Company of Nigeria by former President Olusegun Obasanjo in 2003.”

The report further claimed that Buhari was “grilled for hours on Saturday and would continue his testimony on Sunday before the International Chamber of Commerce Court of Arbitration in Paris in case number 26260/SPN/AB/CPB.”

It quoted sources who said President Bola Tinubu approved the decision to push his predecessor before the foreign arbitration panel.

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