Former presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi has described the seizure

of aircraft in Nigeria’s Presidential Air Fleet as an international embarrassment.

Obi said, the development is yet another of many embarrassing incidents exposing the

nation’s failed leadership and poor attitude to the rule of law in a democracy.

This is coming after the seizure followed the Ogun State Government’s failure to

honour a $74.5 million dollars award granted to a Chinese company, Zhongshan

Fucheng Industrial Investment Co. Limited by an independent arbitral tribunal, chaired

by the former President of the UK Supreme Court, while, the seized jets are said to part

of Nigeria’s Presidential Air Fleet. However, the Presidency on Thursday said it is aware

of the development, accusing Zhongshan of attempting to take over offshore assets of

the Federal Government of Nigeria through subterfuge.

A statement on Thursday, Obi, a former Anambra State governor, said the fact that the

Federal Government went ahead with the jet deal despite outcry and horrifying

economic hardship shows the insensitivity of the President Bola Tinubu

administration, stressing that, the trending international news on the seizure of three

Jets belonging to Nigeria’s Presidential fleet is yet another of many embarrassing

things exposing our failed leadership and our attitude to the rule of law even in a

democracy, noting that, it has also exposed multiple dimensions to Nigeria’s

leadership failure and the insensitivity to the plight of the growing poor class in

Nigeria.

Obi explained that, the fact that the federal government went ahead with the jet deal

despite the cacophonous cry against the purchase of a Presidential jet at this time when

the people are going through a horrifying economic hardship shows the insensitivity of

this administration, it is the embarrassing aspect of our country’s Presidential jets

being held for contractual breaches arising from yet another dimension of inadequate

leadership tidiness.