By Dipo Olowookere
A group known as the Tambuwal Youths Movement has refuted the claim by an unnamed lawmaker of the Sokoto State House of Assembly that the state governor, Mr Aminu Tambuwal, offered him the sum of N13 million to decamp from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Yesterday, Mr Tambuwal, a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, announced his defection from the ruling APC to the opposition PDP four years after he left the latter to join the former.
Reacting to the inducement claim by the unnamed lawmaker, the leadership of the Tambuwal Youths Movement said the report was not only false, but a lie manufactured from the pit of hell to tarnish the image and character of the Governor just because he dumped his “membership of a clueless political party yesterday.”
National Publicity Secretary of the group, Pastor E. E. Anifowoshe, in a statement made available to Business Post on Thursday night, urged members of the public to disregard the “fake news.”
“We therefore urge Nigerians especially the teeming supporters of Governor Waziri Tambuwal to ignore the report as that is part of the wider conspiracy to malign and discredit the reputation of the governor for selfish reasons,” he said.
“While we challenge manufacturers of the fake news report to state the name of the lawmaker in question, we advise news organisations in the country to always cross check their facts before publishing them,” Pastor Anifowoshe said further.
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