Former Kaduna Central Senator, Shehu Sani, has urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s government to withdraw his interest from the Samoa Agreement it signed on November 15, 2023.
TimesNow.com.ng reports that controversy has enveloped a $150bn Samoa trade deal signed by the federal government of Nigeria with the European Union.
But on Thursday, July 4, the federal government in a statement denied the report that President Tinubu was planning to introduce LGBT rights into the country with the Samoa Agreement.
According to Mohammed Idris, the minister of information and national orientation, the agreement was signed in Apia, Samoa, in 2018 by 27 EU member states and 47 OACPS member states. It has 103 articles covering various areas of cooperation, including economic growth, human rights, and migration.
Clarifying the rumour clauses in the Samoa Agreement, Idris said that Nigeria law superseded the agreement.
He further assured that the government led by President Tinubu would not sign any agreement that would contradict the interest of Nigerians.
But in a swift reaction to the development, Shehu Sani in a post shared on his X page, warned African countries against accepting loans or grants with “demonic conditions.”
He, however, urged Tinubu and other African leaders who have signed the Samoa Agreement to go back and unsignt it.
Sani tweeted:
In a similar development, TimesNow.com.ng reported that ex-President Buhari’s media aide, Bashir Ahmad, has clarified that the $150bn Samoa Deal signed by the Tinubu government doesn’t mean Nigeria has legalised same-sex marriage
Ahmad noted that Nigeria has a law that criminalised LGBT, and the National Assembly has not made a move to change the law
The former presidential aide recalled that former President Goodluck Jonathan signed the bill into law in 2014
Source: TimesNow.com.ng
