President of the Senate, Dr. Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan on Saturday
denied media reports that he was sitting on letters of defection from senators
which he didn’t want to announce during plenary.
The report, he said, was untrue and that the purveyors
failed to investigate or seek clarification from the Senators who tendered
their letters of defection from the ruling All Progressives Congress, (APC).
In a statement by the Special Adviser (Media), Mr Ola
Awoniyi on Saturday, Lawan said, the parliamentary rules do not allow him to
deny reading a letter from any Senator on the floor, while he advised newsmen
to verify their facts before publishing.
The statement read: “We have seen a story on social media and some online newspapers purporting that the President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, is sitting on letters from some Senators allegedly intimating him of their defections from the All Progressives Congress (APC).
“The story insinuated that Lawan is sitting on the purported
letters to protect his position as the President of the Senate.
“We hereby state categorically that the story is an utter
falsehood as there is no such letter before the Senate President.
“The report mentioned only Senator Adamu Bulkachuwa as one
of the affected Senators.
“Obviously, the purveyors of the syndicated lies had not
even bothered to confirm from the Distinguished Senator if and when he
submitted any such letter to the Senate President.
“It is public knowledge that the Senate President has always
promptly read out at plenaries letters by Senators defecting from one party to
another.
“That is why he has continued to enjoy the confidence and
full cooperation of his fellow Distinguished Senators irrespective of party
affiliations.
“Apparently, some vested interests want to magnify
challenges to sow seeds of discord in Parliament in promotion of their selfish
agenda.
“We wish to reiterate that the Senate President is not withholding
or sitting on any letter of whatever content from any of his Distinguished
Senator colleagues.
“Therefore, any story purporting such exists only in the
imagination of the mischief-makers circulating it.”
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