Doguwa denies claim that he threatened Ganduje, plans to sue newspaper if…

Doguwa denies claim that he ‘threatened to expose’ Governor Ganduje, says “Kano
gov is my leader, mentor”

• Threatens to sue publisher over fake news, character assassination

The Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Alhassan Ado Doguwa, has described as fake a news report by an online platform that said he had threatened to expose Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano State of alleged deductions from salaries of Local Government workers in the state.

The platform, www.hausanewsnigeriya, published a report, claiming that
Doguwa, who represents Doguwa-Tudun Wada Federal Constituency, had threatened to expose the governor over deductions from the salaries of Kano Local Government workers.

Doguwa, in a statement, he personally signed and issues to media reporters in Kano on Thursday, 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 his leader and mentor, Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje.”

While saying his lawyers would pursue the matter, Doguwa, a ranking lawmaker, said he had never held any adverse feelings against the governor, whom 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 according to him, “every
right-thinking person in the state should be proud of given the transformation it has brought to the state, cutting across all spheres of human development.”

The lawmaker therefore called on the online platform to retract and an apologize to him within 48 hours, failure of which would lead to litigation.

“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,” the statement reads.

He insisted that Governor Ganduje remains the most outstanding governor in the North, noting that the successes being recorded are 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.