Why I resigned – Ex-minister Uche Nnaji speaks

By Soni Daniel

ABUJA: Barely 24 hours aft leaving his office, Chief Uche Geoffrey Nnaji, has fixed reasons wherefore helium resigned amidst fake certificate contention raging against him successful caller times.

In a connection that helium personally signed and made disposable to Vanguard connected Wednesday, Nnaji said helium had to resign pursuing a spate of sustained and orchestrated run of falsehood and politically motivated and malicious attacks connected his person.

The erstwhile curate explained that the determination to measurement speech was a idiosyncratic prime and not an admittance of guilt, borne retired of a principled determination to respect the sanctity of owed process and to sphere the integrity of the judicial proceedings presently earlier the court.

The ex-minister expressed the content that helium would prevail successful the judicial process helium had already instituted against the UNN, adding, “In the end, justness volition prevail and past volition vindicate the just.
Part of the missive reads: “After heavy reflection and consultations with family, associates, and well-meaning Nigerians, I person contiguous tendered my resignation arsenic the Honourable Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR.

“This determination did not travel lightly. Over the past week, an orchestrated, sustained run of falsehood, politically motivated, and malicious attacks person been waged against my person, integrity, and bureau crossed print, electronic, and societal media platforms.
“These unfounded allegations and media distortions person not lone caused idiosyncratic distress but person besides begun to distract from the captious enactment of the Ministry and the Renewed Hope Agenda of Mr. President.

“As idiosyncratic who has spent much than 5 decades gathering a estimation anchored connected hard work, honour, and work to humanity, I cannot successful bully conscience let these distractions to formed a shadiness implicit the noble objectives of this administration.

“My determination to measurement speech is truthful a idiosyncratic prime — not an admittance of guilt, but alternatively a principled determination to respect the sanctity of owed process and to sphere the integrity of the judicial proceedings presently earlier the court. In the end, justness volition prevail, and past volition vindicate the just.
“I stay profoundly grateful to His Excellency, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, for the assurance helium reposed successful maine and for the privilege to service successful his cabinet. His imaginativeness for a renewed, innovative, and technologically driven Nigeria is 1 I proceed to clasp dear, and I pledge my unflinching enactment to his medication and its transformative goals,” Chief Nnaji said.

It volition beryllium recalled that Chief Nnaji had addressed the media connected Monday done his spokesman, Dr. Robert Ngwu, during which helium insisted that helium really graduated from the UNN and blamed a serving South East politician for spearheading the run to region him from bureau to heighten his 2nd word chances.

But helium inexplicably resigned past nighttime and a connection from the Presidency aboriginal confirmed that President Bola Tinubu had accepted his resignation.

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