Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Alhassan Ado Doguwa, has distanced himself from a report by an online platform which said he had threatened to expose Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano State over alleged deductions from salaries of LG workers in the state describing it as fake news.
Doguwa, in a statement he personally signed, said that Ganduje remains his leader and mentor, adding that the said report published by an online platform, mikiyawww.hausanewsnigeriya has no iota of truth.
Doguwa described the report as “blatant falsehood, mischief, and fake news concocted” by his detractors and “agents of darkness” to tarnish his image and cause confusion between him and his “leader and mentor”, Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje.
While saying his lawyers will pursue the matter, Doguwa, a ranking lawmaker, said he has never held any adverse feelings against the governor, whom he described as the “best-performing state executive in the country, talk less of having any cause to expose him.”
Doguwa said he is part and parcel of the Ganduje-led administration, which he said “every right-thinking person in the state should be proud of given the transformation it has brought to the state, cutting across all spheres of human development.”
The lawmaker is therefore demanding a retraction and an apology from the publisher within 48 hours failure of which will lead to litigation.
“It is untrue that I threatened our father, the governor of our beloved state, Kano, and the leader of our party, APC, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, who is my mentor for life, over workers’ salaries as published by the online news platform.
“I have instructed my team of lawyers to write to the publisher to retract the unfounded publication, apologise to me, and state his source, the failure of which will lead to litigation.
“Our governor remains my father, my leader and my mentor for life, no matter the fake news and antics of mischief makers, who are hell-bent on causing confusion between us,” the statement reads.
He insisted that Governor Ganduje remains the most outstanding governor in the North, noting that the successes being recorded are a result of the governor’s management of the state’s resources for the benefit of all.
