The House Speaker said no principal officer will resign. The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, has refuted a media report alleging that he was under pressure to resign from office. A statement by Mr. Tambuwal’s spokesperson, Imam Imam, on Tuesday in Abuja said “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”. Mr. Imam said 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 sometimes now”. “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,” he said. Mr. Imam also said neither the speaker, nor his colleagues serving as principal office will resign their appointments, adding that, they won’t be distracted from their stated goals.
Posted on: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 09:24:27 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015