The attention of Niger State government has been drawn to a statement credited to the APC state publicity secretary, alleging that N150 million had gone missing from the government house; however, our checks have revealed that this was a complete fabrication.

When the chairman of the party, Engr Muhammad Jibril Imam, was asked to confirm if the story indeed came from the party secretariat, he said it did not. “I’m the party chairman and I know nothing of any missing money,” the chairman said. “The party didn’t discuss anything like that and therefore couldn’t have approved such a statement to be issued. We can only commend the governor for his people oriented actions and policies of the past couple of months,” he said.

As critical consumers of information, the people are therefore urged to treat such allegations with caution, because in the eyes of the law, the person who creates libelous material, the person who publishes it and the person who repeats or shares it, are all legally answerable. The logical thing is to ask the individual who made the allegation for evidence, if not, we may irreparably damage the names of good people.

Further, it would really be surprising for such a thing to happen in our government house, because besides the fact that the governor is an economist, he’s also well known as a prudent manager of resources. Most of the time, it’s difficult for even money expended on a pen in the government house to escape his notice.

Dr. Ibraheem Dooba
Chief Press Secretary