Leader of the Senate, Okpeyemi Bamidele has reacted to a post on X that has since gone viral alleging a fight between himself and the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio.
A statement issued by the Media Directorate of the Senate Leader, described the development as false.
Contrary to the report, the statement observed that the Leader of the Senate has not involved himself in any physical fight in over two decades of his political career. The statement further state that, it is also a verifiable fact that Senator Bamidele even when he lead the National Association of Nigerian Students as a young man did not get involved in any fight.
Bamidele in the statement warned the poster of the misleading development and his cohorts to desist from such act. He threatened to used every legal means to protect himself and his office if caution is not heeded.
Full Statement
No altercation between Akpabio, Bamidele
Our attention has been drawn to fake news currently being circulated on the X handle of one Jackson Ude, a known serial blackmailer and cash-and-carry journalist.
The post is about an alleged altercation and physical fight between Leader of the Senate, Senator Opeyemi Bamidele and President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio on Wednesday.
For the record, it is a verifiable fact that Senator Bamidele has never been involved in physical assault in over two decades of his political trajectory, not even when he was a young man leading the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) as President.
It is surprising that the purveyor of this misleading information in his selfish agenda and unprofessional conduct threw ethos of Journalism into waste bin and decided to feast on roadside gists to tarnish the image of the Senate Leader.
We are aware that the fake news is meant to cause disaffection within the Senate and by extension; heating up the political system.
To think that the Senate Leader, President of the Senate and other principal officers of the Senate together received the Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. YU Dunhai and his delegation few minutes after leaving the plenary on Wednesday is a significant testimony against Ude’s imagination.
Further to this, photographs of the Chinese envoys with the leadership of the Senate were widely published in today’s major national newspapers. It is equally verifiable that the Senate Leader and the Senate President both drove out of the National Assembly premises in the same vehicle yesterday.
This time again, the Senate Leader is sounding a note of warning to all attention seekers in the ilk of Ude to be careful and not take the Leader’s gentlemanliness for granted.
Henceforth, the Leader will be forced to use the instrumentality of the law to protect himself and his office as enshrined in the CyberCrime Act 2015. We, therefore, urge the public to disregard this misinformation and treat it with the disrespect it entirely deserves.
