Ola
Awoniyi, Special Adviser on Media to Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, says his
principal has no plans to run for president in 2023.
The media aide made this known
in a statement on Saturday while reacting to certain reports published by media
outlets claiming otherwise.
Awoniyi
said it is premature for anyone to start thinking about 2023 politics now,
noting that the Senate President is preoccupied with extant issues of
governance.
The statement partly read,
“The attention of the office of the President of the Senate has been drawn to a
rather puerile media report that the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, is making
plans to run for president in 2023. The report was first published by the Daily
Independent newspaper of Friday, 17th July, 2020 and reproduced later by the
Sahara Reporters.
“The report apparently has its
source in beer parlour gossips and should be treated with the contempt which it
and those who concocted it deserves.
“It is true that the Senate
President was involved in the consultations that President Muhammadu Buhari
held prior to the last emergency meeting of the National Executive Committee of
the ruling All Progressives Congress.
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