{"id":197116,"date":"2022-06-18T13:01:29","date_gmt":"2022-06-18T12:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=197116"},"modified":"2022-06-18T13:02:36","modified_gmt":"2022-06-18T12:02:36","slug":"senate-president-lawan-speaks-on-viral-video-alleging-defection-from-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/06\/18\/senate-president-lawan-speaks-on-viral-video-alleging-defection-from-apc\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate President, Lawan speaks on viral video alleging defection from APC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate President, Dr Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan, has disassociated himself from a viral video purporting that he&#8217;s dumped the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) for the opposition political party, PDP. <\/p>\n<p>Lawan has been having a tough time securing a return ticket to the senate after a supposed placeholder, macina, refused to step down for him. <\/p>\n<p>The development fuelled rumours of his defection from APC to PDP. <\/p>\n<p>However, his name <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/06\/18\/yobe-north-senatorial-ticket-machina-kicks-as-apc-submits-lawans-name\/\">mysterious appeared among the three senatorial candidates<\/a> list from Yobe state submitted by APC to INEC. <\/p>\n<p>But in a statement issued on Saturday by his Special Adviser on Media, Mr Ola Awoniyi, Lawan described the video as false and mischievous. <\/p>\n<p>He explained that his address on a letter of resignation of one of the lawmakers from Kebbi State was doctored by the purveyors to mean that he has defected.<\/p>\n<p>The statement said: \u201cWe have seen on the social media a video clip in which the President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, purportedly announced his defection from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe original video clip, which was mischievously edited to 26 secs, is a 3mins 30secs clip of the Senate President reading the letter by His Excellency, Senator Muhammad Adamu Ailero of Kebbi State, informing his Distinguished senator colleagues at plenary of his defection from the APC to the PDP over issues in the state chapter of the APC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is common knowledge that the Senate resumed from a recess on Tuesday and adjourned sitting on Wednesday to next Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo how could the Senate President have made such announcement at plenary either on Tuesday or Wednesday without it being reported by journalists who covered the proceedings?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact is that, at the commencement of the session on Tuesday, the Senate President read out some correspondences, one of which was the said letter written by Senator Aliero.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSenator Aliero was not the only Senator that officially announced his defection this week from one party to another.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was the video clip of the Senate President reading out Senator Aliero\u2019s letter that was doctored to give the wrong impression that Lawan has renounced his membership of APC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the avoidance of doubt, Senator Ahmad Lawan is a committed member of the APC and has no reason whatsoever to renounce his membership of the party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMembers of the public are hereby enjoined to discountenance the video in reference as it is the handiwork of mischief makers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate President, Dr Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan, has disassociated himself from a viral video purporting that he&#8217;s dumped the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) for the opposition political party, PDP. 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