Governor Nasir
el-Rufai of Kaduna State, on Friday presented himself to President
Muhammadu Buhari to show him that he is alive and wasn't involved in
any accident.
Governor el-Rufai
also said that he was hunting for the peddlers of the news that he
was involved in a fatal accident, adding that if located, the person
would face criminal charges.
The Kaduna state
governor who briefed State House correspondents after meeting behind
closed doors with the President said that the claim by the former
Vice President and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic
Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar that he won the February 23
election could have been in his (Atiku) dream.
According to him,
"I came to see Mr. President after my re-election as governor
because immediately after the election I took a break. I came back to
report to him that I was not involved in an accident, I’m alive, I
am not in coma and also to discuss other issues related to my state."
On his alleged
involvement in an accident, he said, "My advise to everyone in
Nigeria is to avoid forwarding stories that have not been verified.
Social media provides a platform for disseminating information but it
is also a platform for dissemination of lies and hatred.
"We should be
very careful that we don’t use this platform to advance the cause
of the enemies of this country.
"I was never
involved in any accident, I was not near any accident, in fact at a
time I was said to be involved in an accident, I was on a flight going
to another country.
"But somebody
sat and concocted this story and we are trying to trace who started
it. Because criminal proceedings can be initiated against the
person.
"Sometimes it
is very difficult to know who started it but we are on it. My advice
is that we should rely on reliable news medium, not just any platform
or any blog. Unless we hear something from a very reliable news
medium, we should be reluctant to begin sharing it as if it is true."
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| President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki and other Muslim faithful during Jummat prayers in Abuja yesterday. |
Also reacting to
the PDP's presidential candidate claim that he won the election in
Kaduna, he said, "Well, I heard about that. Initially, I thought
it was a joke and when I checked I saw clearly that he said he won
Kaduna. It must be in his dreams.
"Let me say
this without any fear of contradiction, since President Buhari
started contesting for the presidency since 2003, he has never lost
Kaduna.
"So, PDP has
never won elections in Kaduna from 2003, even with a sitting governor
in 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015. It has never happened. I don’t know what
will happen that Atiku will win Kaduna in this elections this time.
"He lost
Kaduna, he lost very badly, even though about 100,000 votes he
claimed to have got were added because elections conducted without
card reader in some parts of the state, that’s how he even got up
to the 400,000 that he got.
"He has lost
Kaduna, he will always lose Kaduna, he will lose Kaduna 10 more times
because he has never won Kaduna in any presidential elections."
Reminded that the
results were said to have come from the INEC server, he said, "Well,
I don’t know about INEC server, it must be Atiku’s server. I
don’t know about INEC server, we don’t know how they had access
to it, they will tell us during the tribunal proceedings what is this
server and how they got access to it and how they got their numbers.
"You do not
go to court in an election petition by quoting INEC server or any
other server. Anyone can create a server, I can go an buy it, it is a
piece of equipment and c
all it INEC server.
"But that
does not mean that it amounts to anything, we are guided by the
electoral act and the evidence act and other enabling legislation and
he has to proof his case.
"But anyone
can make claims, we live in the age of fake news and fake claims.
Anyone can make claims but you have to proof it."
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