SpatialKing:
If Adesina was from SS/SE region.. The story and tones from the SW region would have been different..

You would hear statements like

"Allow him to defend himself"
"SS/SE like defending their sons unlike we in the SW"
"Anyone that has worked with GEJ we aren't supprised"
"Nobody should interfere with US probe"


Now because their son is involved...

TonyeBarcanista:

Which is ethical among these two?

1. A Bank's policy that protects its corrupt leaders

2. Someone asking that an indicted leader of a Bank be probed by a neutral body?

TonyeBarcanista:

The Board of Directors is headed by Adesina. The Committee that probed was appointed by the Board of Directors (Adesina). Now you expect USA or any sane mind to accept their verdict? Lol Can Ibrahim Magu led EFCC indict Buhari for Corruption?

TonyeBarcanista:
My brother, innocence is not by innocent looks and polished Queen's English!
He should prove it by submitting himself to independent probe

vedaxcool:


Lol GEJites are always funny. Adesina is the only sensible Minister from the Locust Regime of GEJ, yet because of slimy ethnic politics they want him down.

TonyeBarcanista:

My Teacher use to say:

"Do the right thing if you don't want your enemies to get at you, and do the right thing if you don't want your friends to feel embarrassed while defending you. In all situation, do the right thing"

Cosbyrich:


Was that bank policy written by Adeshina.Didn't USA know about the policy before it allowed it to be used to investigate Adeshina?

Adeshina was investigated for 3 months which USA knew about...they did not say he influenced the inquiry. USA will find out if he did.Adeshina came out clean.
Now the USA wants to go for the kill.


Tonye and everybody who does not know what is happening should read this:






Sources, as reported by the Guardian, alleged that the allegations made against Adesina were orchestrated by the American representative at the bank, Stephen Dowd, whom the French press unmasked. It was also Dowd, a member of the Ethics Committee, who also leaked the complaints to staff, the public, and the press, in what was clearly the beginning of an assault and a major smear campaign

But why does the United States want Adesina removed as President? The reasons are legion. According to sources in and outside of the Africa’s premier development institution, there was and there has always been an insidious attempt by the United States to remove Adesina as president of the bank.

The Guardian’s findings indicate that, the United States of America, one of the non-African shareholders, has not hidden her distaste for the revolutionary manner Adesina has been driving the AfDB as it would wean Africa from relying on the West for solution to the continent’s problems through the dramatic increase in the share capita of the financial institution which will enable it to undertake so much intervention on the continent.

The United States vigorously opposed him during his election in 2015. Ever since, at the board level, the U.S. has done everything possible to derail Adesina and his Africa-focused development agenda.

According to the sources, America believes that Adesina is an unapologetic pan-Africanist, who, more than any other president, has moved the development agenda of the bank and Africa forward in a manner that no other in the bank’s 56-year history has done.

“On the board, he does not kowtow to the U.S. or its whims on critical issues relating to Africa’s development.

“In 2019, he successfully led the bank’s shareholder General Capital Increase from $93 billion to $208 billion. In the process, he became the first bank president to take the risk of championing a case for increasing capital for Africa’s development during a first term in office. It was a gambit that paid off in spite of initial strong American opposition.

“In 2018, Adesina championed and helped create the bank-sponsored Africa Investment Forum which in 2018 and 2019 attracted more than $80 billion in infrastructure investment interests into the continent. This was an unprecedented initiative. The U.S. representative was said to have considered the forum a departure from the bank’s original mandate.

Some also saw this as an attempt by Adesina to help wean African nations off a dependency on foreign aid. Some critics also suggested that he was attempting to burnish his credentials among African heads of state via the investment forum.

“Nigeria is the bank’s largest shareholder, followed by Egypt, Germany, and the United States. In 2019, an OpEd believed to have been crafted by the American Executive Director (Stephen Dowd), appeared in an American newspaper – The Hill. Among other things, it questioned why the U.S. (as the second largest non-regional shareholder and the fourth largest shareholder after Nigeria, Egypt, and Germany), did not have veto power at the African Development Bank.

“The U.S. Treasury Department has not taken kindly to the fact that Adesina has not publicly spoken against China’s increasing economic dominance in Africa. Instead, he has framed his economic argument as follows – ‘Do not be overly concerned about China’s presence in Africa economically. Be more concerned about America’s absence,” the sources said.

In 2019, the U.S. set up DFC – the Development Finance Corporation – with approximately $60 billion. With DFC and firm control of the World Bank, the idea was that the U.S., which has not hidden its anti-multilateral development bias, could easily checkmate China on the African continent.

TonyeBarcanista:

My brother, innocence is not by innocent looks and polished Queen's English!

He should prove it by submitting himself to independent probe

Cosbyrich:


Sources, as reported by the Guardian,

ogmask:


Please can i have the link to this article?

Cosbyrich:


https://www.thenewsnigeria.com.ng/2020/05/29/why-us-wants-adesina-out-as-afdb-president/



https://www.nairaland.com/5892310/why-us-wants-adesina-out#90125202