House of Representatives Spokesman, Abulrazak Namdas (APC, Adamawa) has said that there was no truth in reports that the Deputy Speaker Yussuff Lasun has dumped the All progressives Congress (APC).
The Nation reports the Chairman House Committee on Media and Public Affairs as saying there was no truth in the reports but another ploy by the opposition to destabilize the ranks of the ruling in the House.
It was gathered that Lasun’s reported defection might be fallout of a press statement by the Spokesman of some members of a pro Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) group in the House, Parliamentary Democrats Group (PDG) that LAsun’s defecftion to PDP is a forgotten issue.
The Spokesman, Timothy Golu (PDP, Plateau) while reacting to the alleged plan to remove Yakubu Dogara as Speaker following his alleged defection to PDP, had said in a statement on Saturday that “As it is now, not only Speaker Yakubu Dogara, we have many other members, including a principal officer who have signified interest to join the band wagon. So we can effectively say that on resumption, Dogara will be presiding over a House with PDP in majority”.
Namdas, who said the report was an act of mischief, was also supported by the Media aide to the Deputy Speaker, Wole Oladimeji, who equally refuted the claims in a statement on Sunday.
Namdas , while responding to The Nation on the subject of Lasun decamping to the PDP said there was nothing of such.
He said: “There was nothing like that. I am telling you authoritatively he Deputy Speaker did not defect, he has not defected and he will not defect.
“Though I don’t know what those spreading this rumour wants to gain, but this I a mere wish that won’t come true,. The Deputy Speaker has said it severally, at different fora that he belonged here and will never contemplate leaving the party.
“He is a committed man, he has been tested severally and found to be a man of his words.
“Lasun is a member of APC, that, I am telling you authoritatively”.
Wole Oladimeji, who is the Chief Press Secretary (CPS) to Deputy Speaker said the report was a ‘machination of the detractors of the Deputy Speaker’.
The statement reads: “The defection story of Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt Hon Sulaimon Lasun Yussuff to PDP is highly misleading and highly uncalled for.
“Deputy Speaker has said it repeatedly that he is a progressive to the core and remains in APC.
“It is the machinations of his political distractors who are head bent in maligning his political image that are spreading the rumour.
“A silence does not mean that he has left the party, the rumour recently being spread is by his political distractors”.
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