Retract Your Report; Delta's Speaker's Aide tells Vanguard.

Following the publication by one of national dailies; Vanguard Newspapers where it was purportedly reported that an aide to the Speaker's wife had been abducted, the Office of the Speaker, Delta State House of Assembly, has issued a 24 -hour ultimatum to the Daily Editor of Vanguard to retract the publication.


In the report, it was allegedly stated that the incident occurred in the early hours of Monday 20th February.

The Office of the Speaker is therefore asking the editor to tender unreserved apology for the misguided and misleading information.

The news story published in the newspaper (Page 6) on Monday, February 20, 2017 says an aide to the wife of the Speaker, Delta State House of Assembly, was reportedly abducted.

In a statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary to the Speaker, Henry Ebireri which was made available to NAIJNEWSALERT, it described the use of the Speaker’s wife name as a criminally motivated effort to increase the ransom.

“We are wondering where the reporter got that information from. We frown at such journalistic charade for a reporter to create such a huge fabrication”, the statement read.

The Only of the Speaker therefore in its' statement, threatened to use all available actions and remedies if Vanguard failed to comply with its demand for a retraction and tendering an apology for the lie.

 “The wife of the Speaker is not a political office holder. She has no political aide attached to her. Mrs. Ese Ogi is a teacher at the Institute of Continuing Education, Sapele”, it concluded.