{"id":25652,"date":"2020-05-29T15:51:55","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T15:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=25652"},"modified":"2020-05-29T15:51:55","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T15:51:55","slug":"afdb-sanusi-rallies-support-for-adesina-over-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/afdb-sanusi-rallies-support-for-adesina-over-allegations","title":{"rendered":"AfDB: Sanusi rallies support for Adesina over allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>Former Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has urged African leaders to support the embattled President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Akinwumi Adesina.<\/p>\n<p>Adesina is currently battling allegations of favoritism leveled against him by a whistleblower. However, the former Minister of Agriculture has maintained his innocence.<\/p>\n<p>The United States government is insisting on an independent investigation after the bank\u2019s ethics committee had absolved Adesina of the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the development, Sanusi has demanded that laid-down rules in AfDB are respected while investigating and dealing with allegations of misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>The former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor also commended the Nigerian government and former President Olusegun Obasanjo for supporting Adesina.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe excellent letter written by the finance minister says it all and I am pleased that President Obasanjo has weighed in on the matter. Every well-meaning African or friend of Africa should speak up on this matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a simple adherence to global best practices in governance. AfDB has clearly defined rules and processes for investigating and dealing with allegations of misconduct. Everyone is innocent until proven guilty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince those processes were duly followed it is unheard of for the rules to be changed because someone does not like the outcome,\u201d he told TheCable.<\/p>\n<p>The former Emir added that Adesina\u2019s performance at the helms of affairs of the bank is the reason for rallying support for him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have watched him at AfDB and his stellar performance is there for all to see. This is not about defending a Nigerian or a friend,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is about standing up for what is right, for justice and for principle. Africa and its friends must stand up at this point.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy hope is that everyone will see reason and respect the rules. As the minister has said if you don\u2019t like the rules change them but not retroactively.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: Former Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has urged African leaders to support the embattled President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Akinwumi Adesina. Adesina is currently battling allegations of favoritism leveled against him by a whistleblower. However, the former Minister of Agriculture has maintained his innocence. The United States government is insisting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":10045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1220,706,661],"class_list":["post-25652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-adesina","tag-afdb","tag-sanusi"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>AfDB: Sanusi rallies support for Adesina over allegations - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:Former Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has urged African leaders to support the embattled President of the African\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/afdb-sanusi-rallies-support-for-adesina-over-allegations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"AfDB: Sanusi rallies support for Adesina over allegations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:Former Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has urged African leaders to support the embattled President of the African\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/afdb-sanusi-rallies-support-for-adesina-over-allegations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-05-29T15:51:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/05\/a1c66403-muhammadu-sanusi-696x385.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"696\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"385\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/afdb-sanusi-rallies-support-for-adesina-over-allegations#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/afdb-sanusi-rallies-support-for-adesina-over-allegations\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"AfDB: Sanusi rallies support for Adesina over allegations\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-05-29T15:51:55+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/afdb-sanusi-rallies-support-for-adesina-over-allegations\"},\"wordCount\":322,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/afdb-sanusi-rallies-support-for-adesina-over-allegations#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/05\/a1c66403-muhammadu-sanusi-696x385.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Adesina\",\"AfDB\",\"Sanusi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/afdb-sanusi-rallies-support-for-adesina-over-allegations#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/afdb-sanusi-rallies-support-for-adesina-over-allegations\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/afdb-sanusi-rallies-support-for-adesina-over-allegations\",\"name\":\"AfDB: Sanusi rallies support for Adesina over allegations - 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