By DAPO AKINREFON
LAGOS — The Nuhu Ribadu Campaign Organization, has denied media reports about a rift between Action Congress of Nigeria’s ACN, presidential flag bearer, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, and former governor of Lagos State, Senator Bola Tinubu.

In a statement by its Director of Media and Communications, Mr. Ibrahim Modibbo, the organisation said “this is doing great disservice to the profession of journalism.”

While refuting the claims, he explained that “the meeting where heated arguments purportedly broke out between the two men never took place in the first place.”

Mr. Modibbo described as untruthful and misleading to say that Senator Tinubu who has been out of the country for a week now was in a Thursday meeting in Abuja.

He said: “what is more shocking is the claim that Mr. Chido Onumah was also at a meeting in Abuja when indeed he was busy on assignment in Lagos and did not return until Friday. Even the claim that party chairman, Chief Bisi Akande, was at an Abuja meeting, when he is busy in London, amounts to abusing the generosity of readers and taking them for granted.”

The organisation’s spokesperson described the reports as fictional, wondering how important national newspapers, upon which the public depends for editorial guidance and informed opinions, would “invent an event, invest it with characters, and infuse them with dialogue as a basis of making real a situation that is only in the imagination of the writers.”