The APC state chapter factional chairman, Alhaji Hadi Ametuo, has vehemently denied collecting N50 million bribe as alleged by some members of the Governor Yahaya Bello-led faction to withdraw a pending case from the court.
In a statement signed by the factional state chairman Kogi APC, Hadi Ametuo, in Lokoja Sunday , the statement described the accusation as “faceless, incoherent and grammatically suicidal.”
It will be recall that an online media platform, at the weekend, published a story, alleging that the Hadi Ametuo-led faction might have sold out after collecting a bribe of N50m from Bello to betray his members.
Ametuo in the statement insisted that there was no such meeting held at the Kogi liaison office, where he collected the said money from the governor as claimed by those he referred to as “ghost writers.’
According to Ametuo, the write up was just “a fabrication of lies and the figment of the author’s imagination.”
Meanwhile, former senator representing Kogi central senatorial district, Senator Muhammed Salami Ohiare, has also denied any involvement in the purported settlement between the Hadi Ametuo group and Kogi state government.
A statement by his special assistant, Haroun Opotu Yussuf, said the ill- motivated news was just to smear the good and hard earned reputation of his principal.
“It is, therefore, imperative to categorically state here that the carrier(s) or purveyor(s) of the said negative information about his involvement can best be described as a figment of their imagination and of course erroneous”, the statement read.
