The Speaker of the Adamawa State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Kabiru Mijinyawa, has faulted the report in a section of the press that he beat up his police detail as a plot to tarnish his image politically.
The speaker said it was the scheme of his political enemies to cause cracks in his political family.
According to Mijinyawa, the purported report is baseless, false, unfounded and malicious, all in the effort to dent his image in the eyes of the public.
Reacting through the House Public Relations Officer, Mallam Yahaya Mohammed Daji, he said: “As a legislator he has utmost respect for the rule of law and will not carry out such dastardly act against anybody let alone that of a police officer attached to me.”
Mijinyawa, in a telephone interview, further explained that the story as reported was meant to smear, witch hunt and discourage him from performing his legislative functions to the people of Adamawa State.
He said: “If it is not so, tell me why can’t them report the fact as it is?
“Why can’t the media hear my other side of the story?
“Don’t you feel it is just an attempt to destroy my political career?
“Insha Allah, my God will not let them be.
“How can a rational human being, somebody of my type to stoop low to a beating a police officer?
“It is embarrassing to my office, my personality, the people I’m representing and my State.
“I have never denied anybody attached to my office his or her their entitlements.
“We are best of friends with any domestic, security and even my supporting staff in the office.
“Why should people cook up story from the moon against me?
“I’m out to serve my people and the ranting noise of my enemies will never succeed.”
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