All Progressives Congress (APC) Renewed Hope Integrity Network (ARHIN) has alleged a scheme by some individuals, including a former governor of Zamfara State to create disaffection between President Bola Tinubu and Governor Dauda Lawal for personal gain, compromising national security.
ARHIN in a statement yesterday in Abuja signed by its national coordinator, Malam Danjuma Umar, dismissed media reports linking Governor Lawal to sponsoring Atiku Abubakar’s legal team as baseless, attributing them to clout-chasing individuals tied to politicians facing investigations for fraud.
The group also condemned attempts to implicate Lawal in the dismissed Tinubu’s certificate controversy, labelling it a ploy to evade accountability.
Furthermore, ARHIN unveiled a purported plot by the former governor Bello Matawalle to sever ties between Zamfara State and the federal government, emphasising the adverse impact on the state’s development and citizens’ wellbeing.
The group warned against dragging President Tinubu into local issues and urged focus on building a prosperous Nigeria.
“Those behind the hastily written work of fiction are nothing but clout chasers working for some disgraced politicians in Tinubu’s government who are currently under investigation for fraudulent activities and must not be taken seriously.
“This sham of a media story trying to tie Dauda Lawal with the Chicago State University certificate saga is nothing but a vain attempt to create animosity between Mr. President and governor Dauda Lawal by certain politicians from Zamfara State who hope to use their current positions under the Tinubu administration to alienate the governor and in the process evade accountability for their crimes.”
The group equally described as laughable, the barefaced lie that Lawal ‘sponsored’ the legal team of Atiku Abubakar to prove his worth as a newcomer in the field of politics, adding that “how else can an opposition politician prove his worth more than defeating an incumbent Governor with all the state resources at his disposal.”
