Senate President, Ahmed Lawan Reacts To Viral Doctored Video of His Defection To PDP

The President of the senate , Ahmad Lawan has reacted to the doctored video portraying his defection from the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, to the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP at the floor of the red chamber.

Lawan made the clarification in a release by his Special Adviser (Media), Ola Awoniyi, the Yobe lawmaker explained that the original video clip which was mischievously edited to 26 seconds, is a 3 minutes 30 seconds clip of the Senate President reading the letter by Senator Muhammad Adamu Ailero of Kebbi State, informing his colleagues at plenary of his defection from the APC to the PDP over issues in the state chapter of the APC.

He wondered how could the Senate President have made such an announcement at plenary either on Tuesday or Wednesday without it being reported by journalists who covered the proceedings?

“The fact is that, at the commencement of the session on Tuesday, the Senate President read out some correspondences, one of which was the said letter written by Senator Aliero.

“Senator Aliero was not the only senator that officially announced his defection this week from one party to another.

“It was the video clip of the Senate President reading out Senator Aliero’s letter that was doctored to give the wrong impression that Lawan has renounced his membership of APC,” he said.

Awoniyi stressed that Senator Lawan is a committed member of the APC and has no reason whatsoever to renounce his membership of the party.