The Senate Committee Chairman on Local & Foreign Debts and also serves as the Vice Chairman on Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs Senator Shehu Sani of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has open up on a statement in defence of former President Goodluck Jonathan, over the recent controversy surrounding the construction of railway in Nigeria.
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His made this known in a statement in response to a tweet by the Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, claiming that Goodluck Jonathan was not responsible for the creation of railway in Nigeria, but former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, was.
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El-Rufai had tweeted thus: “The is nothing to debate. Facts cannot be debated. Opinions are free. While the Obasanjo administration was conceiving the rail modernisation programme, Senator Ben-Bruce was organising beauty contests, and Jonathan was a Deputy Governor. I am not cluelessly common-sensical! -Nasir.”

Senator Ben Murray-Bruce fired back as follows: “Dear Governor, no need for insults. Construction on Abuja-Kaduna rail began on February 2011 and ended on December 2014. Jonathan built it. These are facts. Yes, I held beauty peagents and produced the first Black Miss World, which you and I should be proud of.”
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