{"id":28639,"date":"2020-08-13T11:21:02","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T11:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=28639"},"modified":"2020-08-13T11:21:02","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T11:21:02","slug":"mailafia-refuses-to-retract-comments-about-northern-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/mailafia-refuses-to-retract-comments-about-northern-governor","title":{"rendered":"Mailafia refuses to retract comments about Northern Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n

Ex-Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Obadiah Mailafia has insisted that a Northern Governor is Boko Haram\u2019s leader.<\/p>\n

Mailafia stated this on Wednesday, while speaking with journalists shortly after he was released by the Department of State Services (DSS).<\/p>\n

The DSS detained him for questioning for over six hours in their Jos, Plateau State office.<\/p>\n

However, Mailafia made it clear he did not need to retract the statement he made, during a recent interview.<\/p>\n

Mailafia, who arrived at the office the DSS office around 12.30pm along with his lawyers, did not leave until 6.40pm<\/p>\n

On his claims, he said, \u201cYes, all of those words were made by me. If the whole of the 55 minutes was played out, the context of what I said would have become clearer.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not the time to disown what I said. Yes, I was privy to some very sensitive information which all statesmen are entitled to have by virtue of our public roles.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know that I should have corroborated some of the information I received, but perhaps some of it was uncorroborated. I was in no position to follow them to the camp to corroborate what was going on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mailafia added that \u201cI must never give up on Nigeria, if need be, I will die for Nigeria.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Northern Governors Forum (NGF) has\u00a0called for an investigation<\/a>\u00a0into the claims.<\/p>\n