PDP, LP’s Tanko Ask Presidency To Explain Funding Of Nigeria’s COP28 Delegation
The dust generated from Nigeria’s 1,400 delegation to the COP28 Climate Summit is yet to settle as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the spokesman of the Labour Party (LP) presidential campaign Yunusa Tanko has asked the presidency to explain who funded the country’s delegates. Since the country’s delegates number emerged, critics and opposition parties have condemned it, describing it as insensitive considering the harsh economic realities in the country. According to the PDP, the delegation is “over-bloated” and made up of “baggage of cronies, mistresses and other hangers-on associated with the Presidency”. “Our Party challenges the Presidency to come clean by making public the names of the official delegation sponsored by the Federal Government to the Conference, the relevance of such individuals to the Conference, and the total cost of such sponsorship on the nation. Of course, Nigerians have the list and they know the genuine, officials of sub-national governments and othe