There is a constitutional question embedded in a press statement—and it deserves to be asked plainly. On August 19, 2026, Senator Abdul’aziz Yari Abubakar—a serving senator representing Zamfara West and a widely acknowledged political confidant of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu—issued a public statement in his capacity as Chairman of Geregu Power Plc, one of Nigeria’s publicly listed electricity generation companies. In that statement, he assured investors and bondholders that Geregu Power had fully settled its outstanding bond obligations.