COVID-19 VIOLATION: YARI DENIES ASSAULTING AIRPORT OFFICIAL, THREATENS TO SUE FEMI FANI-KAYODE
Abdulaziz Yari, a former Governor of Zamfara State, has denied assaulting an official of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, on Saturday, July 11.
Meanwhile, the FAAN on Wednesday tweeted that the ex-Governor assaulted an environmental official enforcing COVID-19 protocol as directed by the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 at the facility.
However, Yari, in a statement released by his Media aide, Mayowa Oluwabiyi, on Thursday, July 16, admitted that he passed through the airport but did not assault any airport official.
Yari said he followed all the COVID-19 preventive protocols put in place by the authority, insisting that the accusation in the FAAN’s tweet was untrue.
He, therefore, demanded an immediate public apology from FAAN authorities for publishing falsehood about him.
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Yari also responded to Femi Fani-Kayode’s tweet, a former Minister of Aviation, threatening that he would drag him to court over his comment on the issue.
The statement read, “His Excellency Abdulaziz Yari finds the (FAAN) tweet odious and distasteful, he, therefore, demands that FAAN retract the offensive tweet and tender an immediate public apology to him for the falsehood published about his person.
“His Excellency Abdulaziz Yari also noted the unwarranted and needlessly vicious attack on his person and reputation by the former Minister of Aviation, Mr. Femi Fani-kayode via his Twitter handle @realffk as a result of the tweet from FAAN earlier on Wednesday.
“We wish to re-affirm that H.E Abdulaziz Yari, the former governor of Zamfara State is a law-abiding Nigerian who will never resort to violence on any issue whatsoever.
“H.E Yari holds the Federal Government of Nigeria in very high esteem and supports all steps taken by the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 to fight the deadly pandemic.
“However, the vicious attack on the person and reputation of H.E Abdulaziz Yari cannot be winked at.
“Mr. Femi Fani-kayode will hear from H.E Yari’s lawyers in due course in order to set the record straight.”
Eons Intelligence earlier reported that FAAN had also accused the Governor of Adamawa State, Ahmadu Fintiri, and his entourage of refusing to have their temperature checked at the Port Harcourt International Airport, Omagwa on Tuesday, July 14, 2020.
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