The House of Representatives committee Chairman on petroleum upstream, Rep Alhassan Doguwa has challenged Rep Abdulmumini Jibrin to provide evidence of his claims, particularly regarding his alleged killing of seven PDP supporters during a campaign rally in 2019.
Doguwa who represents Doguwa/Tudun Wada Federal Constituency of Kano State while responding to a statement by Rep Jibri accusing him of killing 7 persons during camping in 2019, said he needed to put the records straight.
According to a statement signed by the federal lawmaker in Abuja, Doguwa said Jibrin’s accusations stem from a political plot to thwart the will of the electorate, who have consistently voted for him.
The statement reads, “I am compelled to respond to the latest statements made by Abdulmumin Jibrin Kofa, a member of the NNPP, regarding allegations of violence and crisis during the last general elections in my federal constituency in Kano.
“Despite the counsel of elders and stakeholders to ignore his “tissue of lies,” I must address these claims to clear my name and uphold my moral and ethical integrity as a public servant and democrat.
“Jibrin’s accusations stem from a political plot to thwart the will of the electorate, who have consistently voted for me. I have been cleared of all allegations by the police and courts, with three courts of competent jurisdictions declaring me innocent.
“A Federal High Court in Abuja even ordered the Kano State government to pay me N25m in damages for harassment and defamation.
“The crisis in my constituency was instigated by political losers, and I was made a victim. The police arrested and prosecuted NNPP members involved in the crisis, who confessed to being hired to stop my election. I am not standing trial for any alleged murder, culpable homicide, or politically instigated violence.
“I challenge Jibrin to provide evidence of his claims, particularly regarding the killing of seven PDP supporters during a campaign rally in 2019. Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso is my eyewitness to this alleged political brigandage. Jibrin’s actions were reported by the media, and he was arrested alongside 70 others by the police.
“I leave Jibrin’s concoctions and lies to the court of public opinion and the media to analyze. I am confident in my innocence and the truth will prevail.
“My sincere and profound apologies and appeals to all the elders, stakeholders, allies and parliamentarians in Kano, Abuja and across the country who counselled me to ignore Abdulmumin Jibrin Kofa’s (NNPP, Kiru/Bebeji Federal Constituency) tissue of lies, fabrication, ranting, stupidity and balderdash, to kindly allow me, for the last time, respond to his latest statements, as it borders on lives, my moral and ethical integrity as a public servant and democrat.
“While awaiting the so-called bombshell Jibrin threatened to drop against me, which he said would lead to my expulsion from the All Progressives Congress (APC), the largest political party in Africa and my party for life, from which he veered off. Jibrin derailed into hallucinations, concoctions and black lies.
“As we all know, the genesis of these verbal altercations started when Jibrin, a political parasite and an electoral terrorist, warned me against responding to his “fictitious godfather”, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, who disparaged the leadership of the APC and called us “Banzaye”, A Hausa word for stupid people, in a widely circulated video clip.
“Let me also say categorically that as of today, I, Hon. Alhassan Ado Doguwa, am not standing before any court of law in Nigeria, for alleged murder, culpable Homicide or any politically instigated violence being speculated by my detractors or political enemies. I went through virtually all criminal investigations and judicial considerations at various levels and came out clean and victoriously innocent.
“Copies of such rigorous police investigations conducted by the highest police investigations authority in the land ( the Force Criminal Investigation Department – FCID, Abuja) that cleared me, are available for public scrutiny.
I, therefore, wish to state on my honour and on Islamic moral conviction, that the so-called crisis in my constituency was merely cooked and fabricated to throw a spanner in the works of what was perceived to be my life ambition in politics (to be the Speaker of the House of Representatives). Ambition! Yes.!
(Vanguard)
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