Donald Duke, former governor of Cross River state, has reacted angrily to claims made by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former minister of finance, in her latest book.
Okonjo-Iweala, a managing director at the World Bank, had said in the book, ‘Fighting Corruption is Dangerous: The Story Behind the Headlines’, that Duke asked her not to serve in President Goodluck Jonathan’s government in 2011.
This, she said, was to deny Jonathan’s government credibility so that it would be “weak and not succeed”.
Okonjo-Iweala, who also served as minister of finance under President Olusegun Obasanjo from 2003-2006, said she turned down the advice, which Duke allegedly claimed was coming from “a group of concerned people”.
In his response on Twitter, Duke prefaced it with a message to the youth
He wrote: “Dear Nigerian Youths. Thank you for your concerns. Attached is my response regarding Ngozi’s…”
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