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Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Bosun Tijani finally apologized to Senators over 2019 and 2021 tweets.
The lawmaker quizzed Tijani, one of the 48 ministerial nominees of President Bola Tinubu, when he appeared before the Senate for screening on Saturday.
“On the 21st of July 2019, Dr Bosun tweeted against Nigeria that he does not appreciate the Nigerian passport and Nigeria as a nation,” the Oyo Senator said after 46-year-old Tijani, an Information Technology expert, read his profile to the lawmakers.
He explained, “In 2019, sequel to what I did with Google, the business I do with young people requires that they raise money and their ability to raise money relies on investors from abroad and I did everything possible to ensure that I built an office that is fully domiciled in Nigeria.
“In the technology space, people hardly domicile their businesses in Nigeria but I domiciled my business in Nigeria.”
The lawmaker asked the nominee to clarify whether he still believes in Nigeria and the country’s passport.
But addressing the Senate, Tijani said he is very passionate about Nigeria and he is committed to the country’s development. The nominee said he tweeted as a result of a frustrating experience he had with the Chinese Embassy.
“I tweeted in anger,” the ministerial nominee from Ogun State admitted. Bosun had in an old post tweeted that he didn’t appreciate the Nigerian passport and Nigeria as a nation.
Aside from the tweet in contention, a number of the nominee’s old tweets about President Bola Tinubu had gone viral since his name emerged on the ministerial list on Wednesday.
Senator Buhari while questioning the nominee read the exact tweet that had gone viral, saying, “Nigeria is a bloody expensive tag to have against your name. Leave patriotism for a minute- that tag is a bloody waste of energy. A second foreign passport isn’t sufficient to clean that sin.”
The nominee explained that he had been at the forefront of displaying patriotism through the work he does for the Nigerian youths.
“I have spent the last 15 years of my life going across the world looking for people to support people who believe they can use technology to uplift this world.
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