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Kengo Oishi, the Governor of Nagasaki in Japan, is caught up in a big scandal after it was revealed that he had skipped the conference involving the nation's governors to watch the Portuguese football star Cristiano Ronaldo play. The Association of National Governors stated that Kengo Oishi was absent from the conference which was held in Yamanashi on July 25-26.
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The Nagasaki prefecture had sent Deputy Governor Yuko Baba to the conference in the place of Kengo Oishi with the Secretarial section of the Nagasaki prefectural government stating that he had attended the run-up event in Yamanashi on July 24. They further revealed he couldn’t attend the main event because of “official duties,” which was a trip to Osaka to watch a pre-season football match on July 25 at the Yanmar Stadium Nagai between Cristiano Ronaldo’s Al-Nassr and Paris Saint-Germain.
Kengo Oishi has now claimed that he bought a ticket from his pocket for the match but his travel and accommodation costs are set to be covered by the Nagasaki prefectural government. Then, on the following day, Kengo Oishi toured businesses in Osaka for promotional purposes before attending a private company event wherein he had talks with Cristiano Ronaldo, reportedly asking him to “extend a helping hand to the publicity of Nagasaki prefecture,” but there had been no official response to the request as per the Secretarial section.
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