The governor of Taraba state, Darius Ishaku, has described as false a statement made by Hamisu Wadume, the rearrested kidnap kingpin that he duped the governor of N6million.
The governor in a statement on Sunday by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Bala Dan-Abu, said the governor was never a victim of Wadume’s duplicity and never lost money to him.
He urged the general public to discard and disregard Wadume’s confessions, and only see them as the ranting of a drowning criminal.
According to the statement, Governor Ishaku has never met the kidnap suspect and would not even recognise him if they were to meet.
The governor used the forum to commend security agencies for promptly arresting Wadume and urged them to expand their dragnet to all the nooks and crannies of Taraba state.
