Following backlash from Nigerians over the number of delegates that accompanied President Bola Tinubu to the COP28 Climate Summit in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, the senator representing Ondo South District in the National Assembly, Jimoh Ibrahim, has justified the large contingent, saying the 422 persons funded by the Nigerian government was even too small.
Nigerians were alerted to the fact that federal government had funded 1,411 delegates to the summit but after a massive cry out, Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, on Monday, came out to clear the air and stated that only 422 out of 1,411 delegates were funded by the government.
However, while reacting to the raging issue on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Monday, Sen. Ibrahim said the number of delegates from Nigeria had an influence on the multimillion-dollar bilateral deals signed by Tinubu at the summit which are all in Nigeria’s interest.
