SPEAKER of the House of
Representatives, Mr Aminu Tambuwal Tuesday
debunked rumours that he is under pressure
to resign.
issued and signed on his behalf by his Media
Aide, Mallam Imam Imam.
In the statement it was expressly stated
that”he is not under pressure from any
quarter to resign his appointment.”
“The story of the purported resignation, as
published in the Nigerian Pilot Newspaper of
Tuesday, October 8, 2013, is not true, and for
all intents and purposes, is part of a larger
campaign to smear the person and integrity of
the Number Four Citizen of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria.”
“The story did not come as a surprise
considering that it is one in a line of similar
fabricated stories dished out about Tambuwal
by Pilot Newspaper for sometime now.”
*Tambuwal
“While we don’t want to believe that the
owners of the newspaper have allowed their
platform to be used for a smear campaign on
the legislature and its principal officers, we are
constrained to say that allowing falsehood to
be published in the guise of truth takes
seeking-relevance (by the paper) too far.
“We want to assure Nigerians that the
leadership of the House of Representatives is
ever focused on delivering its constitutional
mandate and will not be distracted by the
antics of those who have something to hide.”
“Speaker Tambuwal and his colleagues won’t
resign their appointments and they won’t be
distracted from their stated goals,” the
statement added.
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