•They want to smear my reputation, says AfDB boss
Omololu Ogunmade in Abuja
President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday assured the embattled President of African Development Bank (AfDB),
Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, of Nigeria’s unwavering commitment to his second term bid.
The president, while hosting Adesina, who visited him at the State House in Abuja, said the African Union (AU) had already ratified his candidacy for re-election.
The president spoke against the backdrop of a subterranean campaign to knock out Adesina from the race with allegations of impropriety levelled against him by some AfDB officials.
Although the bank’s ethics committee, in a report, already upheld by AfDB Governing Board, had cleared him of the allegations, the United States, the largest non-African shareholder, rejected the report.
The US, now supported by other non-African shareholders such as Britain, Norway, Finland, and Denmark, called for an independent panel to probe…
Source: Thisday Newspaper
