Senator Babafemi Ojudu, representing Ekiti central in the Nigerian Senate has denied a report alleging that the Senate President David Mark, enlisted Senators to support the extension of President Goodluck Jonathan’s tenure.
The story was published by one of Nigeria’s daily newspapers.
“I never said that. What I said was that when we came back from last year’s summer break the president gave a speech where he said that left to him the defeat of Boko Haram should be the nation’s priority now and not an election.
“And I said from that moment on I began to feel that the elections as fixed for February may not hold since the nation may not have overcome Boko Haram by then.
“This was the only time I mentioned Mark in the close to 30 minutes speech that I gave. I called the reporter Mr Gboyega Adesanmi to complain about this early today at about 5.00am and he promised to make amends.”
Ojudu addressed a meeting of the Afenifere Renewal Group at the University of Ibadan on Tuesday. Here is what he actually said:
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