The Senate Chief, Opeyemi Bamidele, has refuted claims that he’s appearing in opposition to the pursuits of the Yoruba within the Nationwide Meeting.
Bamidele described those allegations as “baseless, false, and unfounded,” declaring that since his election to the Nationwide Meeting, he has persistently served the pursuits of Ekiti Central, Ekiti Situation, the South-West, and Nigeria as a complete.
In a commentary exempt via his Directorate of Media and Folk Affairs on Wednesday, Bamidele challenged somebody with audio-visual or documentary proof to give it.
Sure media retailers had falsely attributed a commentary to the Senate Chief, claiming he stated, “If we allow the regional system in Nigeria, we would have automatically given the easterners Biafra.”
Denying the commentary on Wednesday, Bamidele asserted that he by no means made such remarks, which he believes have been supposed to manufacture battle between him and the Yoruba, in addition to alternative ethnic teams in Nigeria.
He additional clarified that he didn’t talk about the regional executive device, as defined within the 1960 and 1963 Constitutions, throughout the Senate Retreat at the Evaluate of the 1999 Charter hung on Twenty seventh-Twenty eighth September 2024.
“The claim is completely untrue. I never made any comments about a return to regional government, nor did I state that ‘If we allow the regional system in Nigeria, we would have automatically given the easterners Biafra,’”
Bamidele stated. “It is a clear case of misinformation and deliberate fake news that does not reflect my views on federal governance.”
Bamidele additionally warned that he would now not hesitate to hurry felony motion in opposition to somebody or any organisation fabricating and spreading fake details about him and his place of job.
He said that, as of now, there’s no proposal sooner than the Senate Advert-hoc Committee at the Evaluate of the 1999 Charter regarding the go back to a regional executive device.
“How can I oppose a proposal that is not before the Constitution Review Committee?” he requested, suggesting that the claims have been politically determined makes an attempt to discredit him.
“The 10th Senate Constitution Review Committee has received 37 fresh constitution amendment bills and is also considering 16 bills inherited from the 9th National Assembly, making a total of 53 bills. None of these bills propose a return to the regional federal governance system as practised in the First Republic. Linking me to an anti-regional government stance is a deliberate attempt to tarnish my image. I am not working against Yoruba interests and would never do so for any reason,” he concluded.