Daniel Bwala, the campaign spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has reacted to the controversy surrounding the Guinean passport of Nigeria’s president-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Commenting on the issue in a Twitter post on Thursday, Bwala noted that the Guinean government implicated Tinubu by admitting they issued him a diplomatic passport.
“Guinean govt. further implicated him without knowing by saying the passport issued to him was a diplomatic one.
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“Can a diplomatic passport be issued to a non-citizen? No. Only citizens who are either govt. officials or designated to attend a program abroad can get a diplomatic pp.
So, in a nutshell, by accepting the diplomatic passport, he swore allegiance to the government and the flag of Guinea, and hence he is a citizen of Guinea.
“But in his INEC form under oath he ticked that he doesn’t have a dual citizenship. You make the legal conclusion,” he tweeted.
