
Senate President Godswill Akpabio has petitioned Nigeria's Department of State Services over an alleged anti-North statement attributed to him. In the petition, signed by his Chief of Staff, Chinedu Akubueze, Akpabio urged the security agency to urgently investigate the creation and coordinated dissemination of what he described as a "manifestly false, inflammatory and dangerously divisive" statement, according to Channels Television.
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