Fashola said he did not think that having dual citizenship would prevent a citizen from becoming Nigerian president.
Minister for Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola has said that the Nigerian constitution allows citizens to have dual citizenship.
Fashola said he did not think that having dual citizenship would prevent a citizen from becoming Nigerian president.
Investigative journalist, David Hundeyin in a Twitter post on Saturday night alleged that the ‘president-elect’, Bola Tinubu has a Guinean passport.
Meanwhile, Section 137 (1)(a) of the Nigerian Constitution says a person will not be qualified to be president if “he has voluntarily acquired the citizenship of a country other than Nigeria.”
However, Fashola in an interview on Channels TV on Sunday asked, “What does his citizenship have to do with the results of the election?”
“Dual citizenship, I know he carries a Nigerian passport, I don’t know about dual citizenship, I know he resided abroad when he went on exile. I don’t know if they gave him American citizenship there. What does that have to do with the results of the election?
“The last time I checked, I think the Nigerian constitution allows you to have dual citizenship, doesn’t it?
When asked if he thought the Nigerian president is allowed to have dual citizenship, according to the constitution, he said, "It is place of birth; if you are born to Nigerian parents! I will check but I doubt if Nigeria’s constitution makes you disentitled if you have dual citizenship because the constitution allows you to have dual citizenship."