Yakubu Busari, Jos
The former Nigerian Ambassador to Switzerland , Ambassador Yahaya Kwande has threatened to take legal action against the publisher of an online publication for alleging that, “I asked Alh Atiku Abubakar to congratulates, President Muhammadu Buhari for winning the just concluded Presidential election held on the 23rd February, 2019.”
Amb Kwande told journalists at his residence in Jos, Plateau State capital that he was dismayed by the reports credited to an online medium telling the world a story that didn’t emanate from him.
He explained further that, ” It is not bad for someone to have been congratulated a winner if he the winner really deserve it”.
Kwande, who is a member of the Northern Elders Forum, insisted that he never congratulated nor asked Atiku to do so, and described the insinuation as baseless.
He said: “don’t forget Waziri Adamawa is a close associate of mine for clocking 30 years so the results was not ready for me to ask that he should go ahead and congratulate, when I heard that the story was circulating online media I felt very sad. It is just like putting a knife on me.
“I want the world to know what some people are saying that there is nothing like that. I have consulted with my lawyers to possibly take legal action”, he said.
He said he was still weighing the advise of respected persons who asked him to ignore the report because he was once accused of “importing arms to kill Christians in the state at the height of crisis and after six months that same report was repeated,” and thinks this is the best time to put an end to reckless reports concerning him.
