AMEACHI DENIES FIGHTING SARAKI OVER DELAYED SCREENING.

Former Rivers State governor and ministerial
nominee, Rotimi Amaechi, has refuted reports
that he is on warpath with with Senate President,
Bukola Saraki.
Amaechi, in a statement by his media aide, David
Iyofor, denied he was angry with Saraki over his
delayed screening.
According to the statement, ”There was a report
that Amaechi “was incensed over the deferment of
his screening last week and stormed Saraki’s
house to register his protest. It is absolutely not
true.
“There is a deliberate and carefully calibrated
attempt to characterize Amaechi with a very bad
and demeaning mannerism.
“We must clarify that Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi
Amaechi did not visit and was not at the
residence of the Senate President on Thursday of
last week. Since he did not go to the residence of
the Senate President on Thursday of last week,
there is absolutely no way what the newspaper
sources claimed to have transpired, happened.
“We must emphasize that former Governor
Amaechi holds the office of the President of the
Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in very
high esteem and will never disrespect or act in
any way that would put the office in disrepute.
However, in this case, the incident reported never
occurred either on Thursday or any other day.
“While we understand the constraints and
pressures journalists face in doing their jobs, we
would advise them to be thorough and double-
check or even triple-check their sources of
information.
“There seems to exist an axis of fifth columnists,
masquerading as ‘sources’ to journalists, but
fabricate events, incidences and stories that never
happened to malign and destroy the character and
reputation of others, while fomenting acrimony
and bad blood in the polity. Journalists must
beware of such ‘sources’”, the statement said.