The Office of the Speaker, Delta State House of Assembly, has issued a 24 -hour ultimatum to Vanguard Newspaper to retract a report which purportedly claimed that an Aide to Wife of Speaker was abducted or face possible legal action.
In a press statement made available to Fresh Angle International on Monday February 20, The Speaker’s Office demanded that Vanguard’s daily Editor tender unreserved apology over what they described as misguided and misleading information.
A news story published in the newspaper (Page 6) on Monday, February 20, 2017 reportedly stated that an Aide to the Wife of Rt. Hon. Monday Igbuya, Speaker of Delta State House of Assembly, was reportedly abducted.
The statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary to the Speaker, Mr. Henry Ebireri described the use of the Speaker’s Wife name as “a criminally motivated effort to increase the ransom”.
Mr. Ebireri added, “We are wondering where the reporter got that information from. We frown at such journalistic charade for a reporter to create such a huge fabrication”
The office threatened to pursue all available actions and remedies if Vanguard fails to comply with its demand for a retraction.
“The Wife of the Speaker is not a political office holder. She has no political aide attached to her. Mrs. Ese Ogi is a teacher at the Institute of Continuing Education, Sapele,” the statement added.
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