Legit.ng journalist Esther Odili has over two years of experience covering political parties and movements. The Senate leader, Opeyemi Bamidele, has clarified that there is no rift between him and Senate President Godswill Akpabio.
There are reports on social media platform X and others that Bamidele and Akpabio exchanged blows at the National Assembly, which caused them to fail to attend plenary.
But a statement from the media directorate of the Senate Leader, which is usually not signed, said, “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 the ethos of Journalism into the 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 the political system.
“The fact that the Senate Leader, President, and other principal officers of the Senate together received the Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. YU Dunhai, and his delegation a few minutes after leaving the plenary on Wednesday is a significant testimony against the imagination of those spreading the fake news.
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