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The minister of works and housing, Babatunde Fashola, says the Nigerian constitution permits President-elect Mr Bola Tinubu to have dual citizenship.
According to Fashola, the Nigerian constitution does not make a political office aspirant disentitled when such person is a dual citizen.
His reaction is coming after Tinubu’s Guinean diplomatic passport surfaced online.
Though, social media users went into a frenzy over how the president-elect of Africa’s largest economy could lie to the nation’s electoral umpire while under oath.
But while speaking on Sunday night during an interview with Channels Television, Fashola who has been a longtime ally of Tinubu, said: “I know he carries a Nigerian passport; I don’t know about dual citizenship.
“I know he resided abroad when he went on exile, I don’t know if they gave me American citizenship. What has that got to do with the result of the election?”
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“The last time I checked. I think that Nigeria’s constitution allows you to have a dual citizenship.
“I will check. But I doubt that the Nigerian constitution makes you disentitled if you have dual citizenship, because the constitution allows you to have dual citizenship.”
However, the constitution of Nigeria is very clear on the issue of dual citizenship by public office holders and according to the passport, the former Lagos State Governor acquired the passport of Guinea Republic in 2015
