I didn’t fight Murtala, I only exchanged unpleasant words with him – House Leader Doguwa
POLITICS DIGEST- The Majority Leader of the House of Representatives Alhassan Ado Doguwa has call on governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje to wade into the crisis rocking the party in the state.
He made this known in a press conference clarifying his recent misunderstanding with Murtala Sule Garo at the residence of of Deputy Governor Candidate Nasiru Gawuna.
Confirming the confrontation in a press briefing on Tuesday, Doguwa admitted that he was truly not invited to the meeting at Gawuna’s residence but was only there to meet with the party’s chairman, Abdullahi Abbas.
He said he met them holding the meeting and when he saw the calibre of people at the meeting, he “jokingly” enquired why the National Assembly caucus was not represented, to which he said Garo asked him whether he must be invited to every meeting.
Doguwa said he felt slighted by this because he felt his standing as the party’s NEC member and a member of the national caucus aside being a Majority Leader of the green chamber should naturally qualify him to be in attendance.
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I was upset and felt denigrated and while complaining, Garo jumped at me and started insulting me but I initially only told him ‘thank you’ but while I was calling the deputy governor and party chairman’s attention to the insults, he continued and even attempted to grab my cloth. It was then I lost my cool and returned his insults,” he said.
As regards the tea cup and the injury, the House Leader said the cup fell while Garo was shaking the table and he (Garo) slipped from the tea that spilled from the cup and that was where he injured himself.
“I did not injure Murtala. I did not fight him but I exchanged unpleasant words with him and then my brother Aruwa moved me out of the place. The news that is going round (portraying me as the aggressor) is fake and unfounded,” he added.
He said he remained committed to the APC as always and would continue to respect the constituted authority of the party, but urged the state governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, to as a matter of urgency step into the crisis before it spiraled out of control and cost the party in 2023.
“We are facing an unprecedented opposition”, he said referring to the growing strength of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) and other parties in the state and country at large”.
