The President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Akinwunmi Adesina, has said that his current responsibilities as the President of African Development Bank won’t allow him run for Presidency in 2023.
Dr Adesina gave the reasons in a statement on Tuesday titled, ‘Statement by Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, President, African Development Bank’.
Recall that a support group purchased and submitted the N100m Presidential form of the All Progressives Congress for the top banker last week.
In this statement, Adesina disclosed that his current responsibility as the AfDB’s president won’t make him available to contest Nigeria’s presidency.
The statement further reads, “I have been extremely humbled by several calls from Nigerians at home and abroad that I should consider running for the office of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“I am very touched by all who have gone to great extent, with such huge sacrifices, of their own volition, to consider me worthy to be proposed for potential consideration.
“While I am deeply honored, humbled and grateful for all the incredible goodwill, kindness, and confidence, my current responsibilities at this time do not allow me to accept to be considered.
“I remain fully engaged and committed to the mission that Nigeria, Africa and all the non-African shareholders of the African Development Bank have given me for Africa’s development.
It should be noted that AfDB’s regulations bar its President from partisan politics, as the code of conduct bars its executive from partisan politics.
Akinwumi Adesina was also recently conferred honorary doctorate degree by America’s Duke University.
