Makinde questions Tinubu’s Saudi prayer trip, challenges FG over borrowing

By Ayobami Okerinde
The presidential candidate of the Allied Peoples Movement (APM), Seyi Makinde, has questioned the Federal Government’s decision to seek fresh foreign loans despite rising external reserves and claims of improved revenue collection.
Makinde spoke on Thursday at the party’s South-East town hall meeting in Enugu, where he also criticised President Bola Tinubu’s planned trip to Saudi Arabia to pray for Nigeria, urging the government to be transparent about the country’s economic situation.
“I was reading on social media yesterday night up until this morning that our president is travelling to Saudi Arabia to pray for Nigeria. Prayers are answered even in this country...