Babatunde Gbadamosi, a former governorship candidate of the Action Democratic Party (ADP) in Lagos State, has reacted to a story making the rounds that he linked the Muhammadu Buhari-led government with the deadly invasion few days ago of the country home of former Nigeria’s president, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, by unknown gunmen.
The story had alluded to a statement purported to have been made by Gbadamosi that President Muhammadu Buhari’s government released the previously detained Omoyele Sowore, the publisher of Sahara Reporters and the immediate past National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, in order to divert attention from the attempt to kill former President Good luck Jonathan.
The assailants, in their guts, had attacked Jonathan’s Otuoke, Bayelsa State home in a speed boat, killed a soldier on guard and reportedly kidnapped three other persons.
The young politician who appeared jolted by the life the report was fast garnering, described it as ‘false and misleading’.
”I never said this,” Gbadamosi said in a phone conversation with this reporter, stressing further that, ”I don’t understand why such a false and misleading headline was used.”
”What I said precisely was that ‘I can’t shake a feeling’. But I don’t know how that is the same as making a categorical statement,” he declared.
The former guber hopeful, who commended Nigerian journalists ‘for their professional conducts over the years’, therefore, pleaded with them to always check their sentence structure while putting together their stories and be more factual in their reports.
