Report reaching us now has revealed that Africa’s Leading businessman and industrialists, Aliko Dangote, has debunk the allegation that he gave the Speaker of the Kano State House of Assembly, Hon. Kabiru Rurum, the sum of N100 million, to stop the probe of His Royal Highness, Emir of Kano, Lamido Sanusi
Speaking through the Spokesman of the Dangote Group Mr. Tony Chiejina dangote said the allegation was “outright falsehood” which has no foundation.
According to Chiejina an online porta seriously fishing for traffic published the unsubstantiated allegation on the 17th June that Dangote gave the former Kano Assembly Speaker, Alhaji Kabiru Rurum, N100 million, to kill a probe of Emir of Kano Sanusi Lamido Sanusi.
The portal, Chiejina further said has no address nor names of its masterminds, provided no evidence of the bribe. And it came few days after Governor Abdullahi Ganduje, said the Assembly was prevailed upon by well-meaning Nigerians, led by the Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, to drop the investigation of the respected Emir, over allegations of financial misdeed.
The former Kano state Speaker Rurum in an interview on 20th June responded to the allegation in an where he described the story as false, designed to tarnish his image, and bring the whole Assembly into disrepute.
According to Rurum the story was just a fabrication, a tissue of lies, and unjustifiable, because there was never a time he met with Dangote to discuss such issue, not to talk of him offering bribe to us.
Rurum said that the intervention of the Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, Northern Governors, and other notable Nigerians to stop the probe, was channeled through the State Governor, and not the Assembly.
