Former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, on Wednesday, paid a visit to the training facility of Canadian professional basketball team, Toronto Raptors.
The politician disclosed this in an Instagram post on Thursday as well as his meeting with Nigerian, Masai Ujiri, who serves as the president of the organization.
“Yesterday, it was a pleasure to spend some time at the Toronto Raptors training facility and meet with Masai Ujiri, the Nigerian-born President of the organisation. What a state of the art facility! Congratulations,” he started.
He also said that he was happy to hear about Masai’s Giant of Africa programme to help the growth of basketball in Africa.
Continuing, he said: “With basketball facilities in Rwanda, Kenya and other parts of the continent, I mentioned to Masai that it would be great for his foundation to augment it’s basketball clinics by building similar ones in Nigeria.
“I have committed to work with him and other well-meaning Nigerians to build similar basketball facilities in different parts of the country. This will create more opportunities for our young talented Nigerians.”
Earlier in the day, Bukola Saraki had been accused of personalising the official Twitter handle of the Senate president.
Tolu Ogunlesi, new media aide to President Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday accused Mr Saraki, through his media aide, Onemola Olu, of personalising a verified account set up for the Office of the Senate President.
