{"id":3571,"date":"2013-05-13T00:24:57","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T00:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigeria-news\/maku-denies-link-with-nasarawa-mayhem\/"},"modified":"2013-05-13T00:24:57","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T00:24:57","slug":"maku-denies-link-with-nasarawa-mayhem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/maku-denies-link-with-nasarawa-mayhem\/","title":{"rendered":"Maku denies link with Nasarawa mayhem"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nigeria’s Minister of Information, Mr Labaran Maku, has dismissed a media report associating him with the recent bloodshed in Nasarawa State, where 43 policemen were killed by a cult group, near Lafia, the capital.<\/p>\n
In a statement signed by his Press Secretary, Mr Joseph Mutah, the minister described the media report as false, unfounded and calculated to dent his image and integrity.<\/p>\n
“The newspaper claimed that the violence stemmed from alleged rivalry between the Minister of Information, Mr Labaran Maku, and Gov. Umaru Tanko Al-Makura over the 2015 governorship election.<\/p>\n
“It is shocking that this story was published without recourse to the available facts about the unfortunate violence, which are in the public domain in Nasarawa State and which have also been reported widely in the media. The story is, therefore, completely false, unfounded and a calculated attempt to associate the good name of the honourable minister with the ugly violence in Nasarawa State,\u2019\u2019 it said.<\/p>\n