The news of purported death of the Chairman, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Senator Adamu Bulkachuwa, is fake news.
The Senator in a report by Daily Trust on Wednesday, said he was “alive, hale and hearty.”
The lawmaker has come under heavy criticism over his recent comment on the activities of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
“Those insurgency in the Southeast, they’re all claiming that they want their own country called Biafra right? If that is the case, is it by killing people that they’ll get their country?
“They’ve tried it before, do they want us to go back to the same route? I don’t think so. But if they do, if that’s what they choose, has Nigeria got any choice?
“Will we just allow them, bow and say, ‘we’ll grant you your own wish?’ No. Nigerian government has to stand out, fight them and give them what they want,” he had said on Channels Television.
Senator Bulkachuwa said since he granted the interview, some people had been expressing unpleasant comments about him.
He said, “Since that interview, some people have been saying all sorts of rubbish things. Some wish I’m dead. But they are entitled to their own opinion. I’m alive, hale and hearty.
“The people saying those things did not watch the interview. If they did, they would not be saying those things.”
