Deputy Governor of Adamawa State, Bala James Ngillari has denied comments credited to him that he justified Boko Haram insurgency.
Ngillari was quoted by a national daily (not Nigerian Pilot) at the inauguration of the Adamawa State office of the Citizens Network for Peace and Development in Nigeria, of saying that the terrorists were fighting a good cause.
But the Adamawa deputy governor in a chat with State House correspondents denied the statement, saying “I never said that, and never will I say that at any time in whatever capacity, at whatever forum.”
He continued: “A personality of my social and political standing in the affairs of our dear country, Nigeria, can never descend to the little level of justifying the activities of a sect that seems all out to exterminate the population from which I emerged. “I, therefore, plead with all humility, with my well-wishers, every person concerned or affected in any way by that report, and my entire fellow countrymen to dismiss that misrepresentation of me in that news story as just one of the umpteenth devastating news reports usually carried to tarnish the image of innocent public office holders like me.