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Ambassador Damagum
By our reporter
Ambassador Umar Iliya Damagum, the PDP Deputy National Chairman, (North), has broken his silence on the allegation levelled against him by the APC zonal leader for persons with Disabilities Northeast, Yobe State Chapter. Comrade Mohammed Abba Isa.
In a statement signed and issued personally by Ambassador Umar Iliya Damagun, which was made available to journalists in Damaturu, said “My attention has been drawn by a press released signed by one Comrade Mohammad Abba Isa, where he addressed the press in Damaturu, Yobe State.
He lamented that, It is interesting that we are at the moment in a political milieu where we politicians enjoying throwing jabs at our opponents to win support on our side.
In achieving this however, we as politicians sometimes engage in metaphorical analogies that are either wrongly misinterpreted, twisted or in some cases completely taken out of context from our intended meanings.
He described that, this is exactly the case of the perceived anger over my statement at the Maiduguri rally. This will be sustained after our dear party emerges victorious at the general elections come next year.
He added that, “I want to state categorically here that my statement was just a simple Hausa expression that represents “strong and healthy with capacity” alluding to our Presidential Candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.
My statement was not targeted at millions of people living with disabilities in Nigeria or anywhere on this planet, neither did I mean to be insensitive to these special grpup of people whom our party and I as a person hold in high esteem.
Consequently, I will therefore want to disassociate myself, my position as the Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party North and my party from the disposition and insinuation of the APC Zonal Leader of people with Disabilities and his sponsors.
As a political party that seeks to do justice to all manner of persons, the PDP in the past 16 years ran an all inclusive Government where the voices of people with Disabilities became louder than ever.
Once again, I hold People with Disabilities in high esteem and I refused to be dragged in this antics of the APC trying to draw daggers in an imaginary war to attract sentiments since they have lost the sympathy of Nigerians.
