THE Borno Concerned Group has dismissed as “falsehood” media report purporting leadership sharing deal between the Peoples Democratic Party senate caucus and a former Senate majority leader, Senator Ali Ndume, describing it as “figment of a reckless imagination.”

The BCG, an advocacy group that is supporting Ali Ndume senate presidency ambition, said it noted ‘the deliberate falsehood orchestrated by faceless persons to cast the distinguished senator in the mold of anti-party man or anti-Buhari or both.’

In a statement on Sunday by its spokesman, Alhaji Mohammed Shehu in Abuja, the group referred to the lead reports in a national daily on Saturday and Sunday which quoted unknown sources to give credence to what it described as “a well-crafted but mischievous narrative that Senator Danjuma Goje and Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume are in talks with opposition party for Goje-Ekweremadu or Ndume-Ekweremadu senate presidency ticket.

“While we are not holding brief for Senator Goje,  we state for the avoidance of doubt, that there was neither such meeting nor discussion with Senator Ndume.

“Our initial reaction was to simply ignore the report considering its factual errors and its failure to pass the basic principle of fair and unbiased journalism test. It did not consider it appropriate to hear the other side of the story assuming there was any.

“The report that the Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai had been sent by President Buhari to open talks with Senator Ndume is also another falsehood fabricated to insulate their preferred candidate from the necessary rigour of a popularity contest expected of an aspirant to the nation’s number 3 position,”  the statement added. – Punch

– Apr. 29, 2019 @ 08:32 GMT |