Bauchi Speaker Abubakar Suleiman has debunked reports widely circulated on social media that he, alongside the Senate President and other federal lawmakers, received N-power recruitment slots from the Minister of Disaster Management, Humanitarian Affairs and Social Development, Hajiya Sadiya Umar Farouk.
In a statement to reporters in Bauchi, the state capital,on Sunday by his spokesperson, Abdul Burra, the Speaker wondered how: ”Sahara Reporters, supposedly a professional media platform, with more than 3 million followers, will publish unverified, fictitious and unfounded information to mislead its readers.”
According to him: “A simple inquiry will have confirmed to the medium that the printed application forms are used as evidence of the said allocation are data collection forms printed by the Speaker to ease data entry at free N-power Online Application Centres he provided in his Ningi Central Constituency, to increase the chance of his constituents to get enrolled into the programme.”
He urged the public to disregard any report or information that he got any N-power recruitment slots.
The Speaker, while commending President Muhammadu Buhari for the N-power initiative, called on youths in his Ningi Central Constituency to rush to the free N-power Application Centres he provided to apply for the programme, saying it would help reduce joblessness amongst them.