Saraki blasts Sahara Reporters over false publications
- Mumini AbdulKareem
- Jul 23, 2015
- 2 min read
The President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki yesterday took a swipe at an online medium, Sahara Reporters over what he termed smear and malicious campaigns against his person.
The Senate President who spoke through his Special Assistant on New Media, Bamikole Omishore in a statement denied reports that he signed the report of the Ahmed Makarfi led Finance Committee investigation into the alleged non-Remittance by NNPC of $20 into the federation account as alleged by the news medium.
He therefore requested the general public to disregard the antics of Sahara Reporters and call on the online news site to immediately retract the offending publication and offer an unequivocal apology to the Senate President, the National Assembly and the citizenry of Nigeria.
Describing the report as “unprovoked, reckless and mindless publication” Saraki said the posts by Sahara Reporters are completely false with no iota of truth whatsoever.
He challenged the medium to either post facts or any documentation with proof or desist from misleading the reading public with dirty works of fiction apparently commissioned by some politicians in an attempt to destabilize the legislative arm of government and the country as a whole.
“It is obvious that Sahara Reporters in the last one month has no interest in other stories other than to fabricate fallacies and falsehood against the person of the Senate President and members of his family.
“While we are aware that the online publication is only doing the bidding of its sponsors and simply joining forces with political detractors who after failing to achieve their partisan aims believe that all is fair in war, we believe that journalism is a public trust and those who hold the trust should, even under extreme circumstance, refrain from abusing the trust.
“We therefore call on fellow citizens and all members of the international community to treat the Sahara Reporters' publication as what they are: mere falsehood not to be accorded any measure of importance.”
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