BY AMOS DUNIA, ABUJA – The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan has declared that it is premature for anybody to be talking about 2023 now when all hands should be on deck against the myriad of challenges that faces our nation in this period.
Lawan, who stated this while responding to media reports that he was making plans to run for president in 2023, pointedly said that he does not suffer such needless distractions as imputed by the false reports under reference.
He specifically said that his present preoccupation is with advancing the agenda of the Ninth National Assembly to focus governance in the pursuit of the best interests of the Nigerian people and to support President Buhari in delivering his promises to Nigerians.
These were contained in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media, Mr Ola Awoniyi, in which he noted that it is easy to see that the report emanated from the sort of practice that drags the noble profession of journalism to the gutters as it only dresses up the lazy fantasy of its unimaginative authors as a fact.
The statement further said that the report apparently has its source in beer parlour gossips and should be treated with the contempt which it and those who concocted it deserves.
Awoniyi also said; “It is true that the Senate President was involved in the consultations that President Muhammadu Buhari held prior to the last emergency meeting of the National Executive Committee of the ruling All Progressives Congress(APC).
“But there was nothing extra-ordinary in his involvement in such consultations, given his status as holder of one of the highest political offices in Nigeria and on the platform of the APC.
“Such is required of any concerned member of the party. It is therefore sheer mischief for anyone to read ulterior motives to the Senate President joining hands with the President and other leaders in resolving misunderstanding in their own party.
“We will like to stress that the Senate President’s preoccupation is with advancing the agenda of the Ninth National Assembly to focus governance on the pursuit of the best interests of the Nigerian people and to support President Buhari in delivering his promises to Nigerians,” Awoniyi stressed.
The spokesman to the Senate President also said; “The attention of the office of the President of the Senate has been drawn to a rather puerile media report that the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, is making plans to run for president in 2023.
“The report was first published by the Daily Independent newspaper of Friday, 17th July, 2020 and reproduced later by the Sahara Reporters.
“We advise the idle pseudo-journalists to look for other engagements and stop bastardising this noble profession,” he counseled.
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