Deputy Senate president, Ike Ekweremadu, has debunked media reports
credited to him on the recent fiasco in the National Assembly just as he
said he doesn’t have a twitter handle.
LEADERSHIP Weekend recalls that a tweet on his purported twitter handle surfaced yesterday which read: “Dear Nigerians, please be rest assured that we are all fighting for your interest. We need your prayer and support for a better Nigeria.”
Disowning the tweet, he said the twitter handle is fraudulent and mischievous.
In a statement issued by his special adviser on media, Uche Anichukwu, he said, “The attention of the office of the deputy president of the Senate has been drawn to the report making the rounds in the social media and online newspapers in which he was quoted to have tried to explain the brawls at the National Assembly.
“This is to inform members of the public that the report supposedly written from Senator Ekweremadu’s purported twitter handle is both fraudulent and mischievous.”
He recalled that he had cause to issue a statement about a year ago (specifically on June 29, 2014) to the effect that he had since shut down his social media platforms and warned members of the public to disregard any message put out on these platforms supposedly by him.
According to him that decision was necessitated by fraudulent and mischevious actitivities such as the current report.
“The Deputy President of the Senate did not twit, does not own a Twitter handle, and did not even grant any interview whatsoever to any reporter on the sad developments at the National Assembly yet.”
“Those who are strenuously trying to drag Senator Ike Ekweremadu into the fray should please bear their cross and leave him out of it. Nigerians know those brawling at the National Assembly, and it is up to them to explain to Nigerians why they brawl.”
He also called on media houses, to kindly crosscheck with his Office on information such as the one in question before going to the public with it, so as to help check the activities of mischief-makers.
LEADERSHIP Weekend recalls that a tweet on his purported twitter handle surfaced yesterday which read: “Dear Nigerians, please be rest assured that we are all fighting for your interest. We need your prayer and support for a better Nigeria.”
Disowning the tweet, he said the twitter handle is fraudulent and mischievous.
In a statement issued by his special adviser on media, Uche Anichukwu, he said, “The attention of the office of the deputy president of the Senate has been drawn to the report making the rounds in the social media and online newspapers in which he was quoted to have tried to explain the brawls at the National Assembly.
“This is to inform members of the public that the report supposedly written from Senator Ekweremadu’s purported twitter handle is both fraudulent and mischievous.”
He recalled that he had cause to issue a statement about a year ago (specifically on June 29, 2014) to the effect that he had since shut down his social media platforms and warned members of the public to disregard any message put out on these platforms supposedly by him.
According to him that decision was necessitated by fraudulent and mischevious actitivities such as the current report.
“The Deputy President of the Senate did not twit, does not own a Twitter handle, and did not even grant any interview whatsoever to any reporter on the sad developments at the National Assembly yet.”
“Those who are strenuously trying to drag Senator Ike Ekweremadu into the fray should please bear their cross and leave him out of it. Nigerians know those brawling at the National Assembly, and it is up to them to explain to Nigerians why they brawl.”
He also called on media houses, to kindly crosscheck with his Office on information such as the one in question before going to the public with it, so as to help check the activities of mischief-makers.
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