Amaechi Did Not Storm Saraki’s
Residence In Anger
Former Governor of Rivers State,Rt. Hon.
Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, has denied report by
a section of the media that he was angry over
the deferment of his screening last week as a
Ministerial nominee and stormed the House of
Senate President Bukola Saraki’s house to
register his protest.
Rotimi Amaechi
Amaechi in an online statement signed by
David Iyofor, the former Chief Press Secretary
to the immediate past Governor dismissed the
reports that as a Ministerial Nominee whose
screening by the senate had been deferred was
said to have raised his voice to express his
frustration before leaving the residence without
seeing the Senate President.
The statement said the imagery created in the
last four paragraphs of the lead report in a
today’s edition of the national daily,
(THISDAY) depicted an angry Amaechi who
stormed the residence of the Senate President
Bukola Saraki, raised his voice as he made a
scene or caused a “ruckus” to display his
frustration over the deferment of his screening
by the Senate, before “storming out in a huff”,
without seeing the Senate President is
absolutely not true.
Iyofor further said : “There is a deliberate and
carefully calibrated attempt to characterize
Amaechi with a very bad and demeaning
mannerism. We must clarify that Rt. Hon.
Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi did not visit and was
not at the residence of the Senate President on
Thursday of last week. Since he did not go to the
residence of the Senate President on Thursday of
last week, so, there is absolutely no way what the
newspaper sources claimed to have transpired,
happened.
“We must emphasize that former Governor
Amaechi holds the office of the President of
the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in
very high esteem and will never disrespect or
act in anyway that would put the office in
disrepute. However, in this case, the incident
reported never occurred either on Thursday or
any other day.
“While we understand the constraints and
pressures journalists face in doing their jobs,
we would advise them to be thorough and
double-check or even triple-check their sources
of information. There seems to exist an axis of
fifth columnists, masquerading as ‘sources’ to
journalists, but fabricate events, incidences and
stories that never happened to malign and
destroy the character and reputation of others,
while fomenting acrimony and bad blood in the
polity. Journalists must beware of such
‘sources’,”Amaechi media aide said.
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