Jonathan Nwokpor
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Gbenga Daniel, the former governor of Ogun State, has pledged to defend the Nigerian government in the ongoing legal battle with Zhongshan Fucheng Industrial Investment Limited, a Chinese business that resulted in the seizure of several presidential jets.
Due to a botched contract that the Ogun State government started in 2007, Zhongshan Fucheng Industrial Investment had taken the Nigerian government to court.
Three presidential jets that were in France for normal maintenance were taken into custody as a result of the legal dispute. However, the Nigerian government eventually received access to one of the jets.
Daniel signed the contract in 2007 while he was employed there.
Part of a statement from Daniel’s media office said: “It is also important to note that this is a very sensitive matter involving our collective national assets and Commonwealth, which every patriotic Nigerian should feel concerned about.
“And as a patriotic elder statesman who has had the privilege of serving Ogun State as the Governor, through which he was able to bring about several developmental projects, including the establishment of the Ogun-Guangdong Free Trade Zone and others, and through which he has impacted the lives of many citizens, also as a serving senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, it is this patriotic path he chooses to thread.”
The statement read further: “Senator Otunba Gbenga Daniel would rather engage in helping Nigeria, through the President and Commander-in-Chief, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to find a diplomatic solution to the issue at hand with available records that could assist the Federal Government in pursuing its course at the arbitration and before the courts.”
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