Abdulazeez Ganduje denies meeting with Senator Barau Jibrin
The son of Kano State governor, Abdulazzeez Abdullahi Ganduje, has refuted the rumour making the round that he has been appointed by his father to serve as go-between to woo Senator Barau I. Jibrin to the governor’s side.
This was revealed by his legal counsel, Barrister Umar Shehu, in a press statement he issued on Monday.
Barrister Shehu explained that his client was “shocked by the unfounded rumour that linked him to the crisis in the All-Progressives Congress (APC) in Kano State.”
He explained that his client has been out of Kano for some time and has not even met in person with Senator Barau Jibrin in the last four months.
He said the pictures of him and the Senator been branded about was an old one which they took during a certain meeting about a year ago.
Barrister Umar further elaborated that his client is “truly in good terms with the Senator but that does not impute that he has a role to play in the state party issue.
“My client is worried that his name is being dragged into an issue that does not in any way concern him; an issue no one has consulted him to intervene in; an issue that falls well outside his purview of activity.”
He therefore called on people to discountenance the rumour which he referred to as “an imagination which has gone into an overdrive”, asking for the “authors to desist from further spreading blatant lies that have no basis.”
Meanwhile, the Senator representing Kano North, Barau I. Jibrin has described the story as fake news.
There are insinuations that the meeting was to prevail on the federal lawmaker to drop his gubernatorial aspiration.
Solacebase quoted Jibrin’s media aide, Shittu Madaki Kunchi to have said the picture in circulation was taken in late 2020.
‘’The story is not true as that picture was during the visit of Abdulaziz Ganduje to Senator Barau’s office at the National Assembly in late 2020. There was even Dambatta House of Representatives member, Hon. Badamasi Ayuba,’’ the media aide said.
Shittu Madaki Kunchi said Barau Jibrin who is the Senate Committee Chairman on Appropriation was not even in Kano over the weekend as stated by the fake news story.
The media aide urged mischief makers to desist from such act of spreading fake news which can create chaos in the society.
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