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From Jonas Ike, Abuja
The race for the Speaker of 9th National Assembly is getting hotter by the days as one of the leading aspirant and the anointed candidate of the All Progressives Congress APC Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila has vowed to file suit of criminal defamation of character against some persons said to be behind the smear campaign on his candidature.
The Director-General of the Femi Gbajabiamila/Idris Wase campaign council Hon Abdulmumin Jibrin (Kano, APC) who addressed a press conference on Wednesday in Abuja said that the reports in some sections of the media that Gbajabiamila was convicted by the Supreme Court of State of Georgia is a hatchet job done to puncture his candidature and smear his reputation.
He said that the APC’s anointed candidate Femi Gbajabiamila has never committed any perjury in Nigeria and or in any other country of the world. He said that the lawmaker has already instructed his lawyers to file court case against those behind the smear campaign on his candidature.
According to him, the lawmaker has responded to these allegations that he corruptly enriched himself with $25,000 belonging to his client in the United States and urged the public to disregard the accusation.
He said: “this is a hatchet job. This campaign of calumny is targeted at smearing his reputation. We urge the public to disregard this accusation”.
The DG further stated that the lawmaker has instructed his lawyers to sue for defamation those behind the smear campaign with immediate effect.
Our correspondent recalled that on Tuesday, Chairman of the Coalition of Political Parties in Nigeria CUPP Barr. Ikenna Ugochinyere addressed a press conference in Abuja alleging that Gbajabiamila was convited in the United State for perjury and so was not qualified to vie for the speaker of the 9th National Assembly.
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