Bayo Onanuga, the special adviser on information and strategy to the president, says the office of the national security adviser (NSA) investigated the allegation of bandits’ ties levelled against Bello Matawalle.
October 24, 2024 12:09 pmBayo Onanuga, special adviser on information and strategy to President Bola Tinubu, says allegations linking Bello Matawalle to the spate of banditry in the north-west have been found to be untrue.on October 23.
Speaking in an interview on Arise TV on Wednesday, Onanuga said Matawalle, a former governor of Zamfara, was not sacked because the office of the national security adviser investigated allegations bordering on his ties to bandits and found them spurious.Advertisementhow the government house was allegedly used to pay ransom for children of a permanent secretary during the Matawalle administration.
Lawal said if he were Matawalle, he would resign from the federal cabinet and work towards clearing his name.he has no links with bandits terrorising the state, adding that he had sworn by the Quran.Onanuga said the allegations against Matawalle were “mere fabrication” and politically motivated.“In one of them, I got something like that and sent it to the NSA and asked: ‘Have you heard about this?’“The NSA said: ‘No. We have probed a lot of those things; they are not true’.
“The president, I’m sure, has heard many stories about him. For him to be there shows that… like I have said, some of those things have been probed; they have been found not to be true.Advertisement
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