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Sign Language Interpreter Confused As Tinubu Struggles To Pronounce ‘Technological’ (Video)

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The All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, has embarrassed himself at a public event for the umpteenth time.

Naija News reports that Tinubu and party Chieftains stormed Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital on Thursday for the APC presidential campaign rally.

The former Governor of Lagos State while delivering his campaign promises to the residents of the state, mumbled his words as he tried to pronounce the word ‘technological’.

While some of the party chieftains kept a straight face, the sign language interpreter was left confused while another lady standing behind Tinubu laughed over the statement.

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Senator Sentenced 42 Years For Corruption

Meanwhile, a senator representing Akwa Ibom North-East, Bassey Albert has been sentenced to 42 years in prison for corruption by a federal high court in the state.

Albert, before the landmark verdict was a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), when he won the election before defecting to the Young Progressives Party (YPP), in July, 2022, where he emerged as its governorship candidate.

In 2019, he was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on a six-count charge of allegedly taking possession of six vehicles worth N204 million when he was finance commissioner in the state.

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According to the anti-graft agency, he collected one of the vehicles from Jide Omokore, an associate of Diezani Alison-Madueke, former Minister of Petroleum.

Since the former petroleum minister, Alison-Madueke fled the country attempts by the EFCC to bring her to justice in Nigeria for alleged acts of corruption have failed.

But several of her allies have come under scrutiny with many facing fraud-related charges and prosecution in court.

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