Nigeria’s Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, says he has no connection with the land or the high-rise building that collapsed while under construction on Gerrard Road in Ikoyi, Lagos.
In a statement on Friday, the Vice President’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, stated that his principal has no interest in the said property.
The statement added that all property and assets owned by the Vice President have been publicly declared.
The Vice President’s spokesman faulted a report by a media outfit that suggested that Osinbajo owned the land upon which the collapsed building stood.
The report, he noted, also claimed that Ade-Ojo sold the land to Osinbajo while Vice President, at some point, intervened with the regulatory authorities in Lagos to unseal the property.
But Akande insisted that the Vice President never spoke with the state governor or any other official of the government regarding the unsealing of the building.
He added that his principal never acted to influence any other regulatory action on the collapsed building or any other structure in Lagos.
