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I Am Not Contesting For Presidency – Akinwunmi Adesina

Nigeria’s Poverty Situation Is Unacceptable - Adesina

Akinwumi Adesina, president of the African Development Bank (AfDB) says he is not contesting the 2023 presidential race.

Gatekeepers News earlier reported that some groups claimed to have purchased and submitted the nomination form of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on behalf of the AfDB President.

Adesina, while clearing the air in a statement on Tuesday, said he is not running for president.

His office is expected to issue a statement in a few hours distancing Adesina from Nigeria’s partisan politics as AfDB bars its President from such.

Paragraph 2 of Article 38 of the agreement establishing AfDB, titled ‘Prohibition of Political Activity; the International Character of the Bank’, states that “The Bank, its President, Vice Presidents, officers, and staff shall not interfere in the political affairs of any member (country); nor shall they be influenced in their decisions by the political character of the member (country) concerned.”

Paragraph 3 of the article further stated that “The President, Vice Presidents, officers and staff of the Bank, in discharge of their offices, owe their duty entirely to the Bank and to no other authority.”

The bank’s code of conduct also bars its executive from partisan politics. Section 10 of the Code reads: “Although Executive Directors are elected representatives of governments from their constituencies, they shall during their tenure of office as executive directors refrain from participating in active politics in their home countries or elsewhere.”

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