The Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Alhassan Ado Doguwa, on Thursday, faulted reports that he had threatened to expose Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State over alleged deductions from salaries of local government workers.
While describing the news item by an online medium as fake, the legislator demanded a retraction and an apology from the publisher within 48 hours, failure of which he would proceed to court.
The Hausa medium had published a report claiming that Doguwa, who represents Doguwa-Tudun Wada federal constituency of Kano State, had threatened to expose Ganduje over deductions from the salaries of Kano LG workers.
But Doguwa in a statement in Abuja, 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 Ganduje.
He said he had instructed his lawyers to pursue the matter, to clear his name because he has never held any adverse feelings against the governor, who 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 every right-thinking person in the state should be proud of, given the transformation it had brought to the state, cutting across all spheres of human development.
He said, “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.”
Doguwa insisted that Ganduje remained the most outstanding governor in the North, adding that the successes being recorded were a result of the governor’s management of the state’s resources for the benefit of all.
“I have never seen a governor in the North who has done as much as Governor Ganduje has done in the areas of security, education, healthcare delivery and infrastructural development,” he said.
