The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal,
has said he is not under pressure from any quarter to resign his
appointment.
The Speaker in a statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media
and Publicity, Imam Imam, said the story of the purported resignation,
as published in a daily newspaper (not The Nation) on Tuesday, is not
true.
The statement reads: “For all intents and purposes, this 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 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.
“Speaker Tambuwal and his colleagues won’t resign their appointments and they won’t be distracted from their stated goals.”
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