Katsina State Governor Ibrahim Shema has said he was quoted out of context in a recent video which went viral where he was seen addressing his supporters and likened opposition to cockroaches meant to be crushed and killed.
Shema made his position known in a statement signed by his director of press, Alhaji Lawal Matazu.
According to him, “the content of the video was distorted to suggest that he abhors illegality.”
“This is completely untrue and Governor Shema hereby emphatically reject the insinuation that was injected into the context of his address at the occasion.
“The content of the video, which was about the need for the Delegates not to allow themselves to be intimidated or harassed was completely taken out of context and distorted,” he said.
The statement further stated that Shema has never supported violence and hence could not have asked anyone to engage in it under whatever guise.
It added that all those who may “have been misinformed by the distortion of the media report about his decontextualised speech to disregard the impression created by the report”.
