Governor Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu of Niger State yesterday said there was no disagreement between him and late Senator Dahiru Awaisu Kuta over the Niger East Senatorial District seat.
Kuta, who died on June 12, 2014, was the senator representing the senatorial district and would have clashed with Gov. Aliyu, who is reportedly eyeing the PDP ticket for the seat after his tenure as governor elapses in 2015.
Aliyu, who led a delegation of the state government officials and family of the late lawmaker to the Senate chamber yesterday for a valedictory session, denied having any quarrel with the deceased before his demise.
Speaking to newsmen after the session, the Niger governor described Kuta as a prominent indigene of the state who would be sorely missed.
“There was never a running battle with the late Kuta. When I went to the House of Representatives, I didn’t seek for it. When I also contested the governorship election, I did not also contest for it.
“People want to play politics with everything. I had never declared to anybody that I want to run for any office yet. Whatever you might have read in the papers is the attempt by some people to play politics but I had never had any problem with the late senator”, Aliyu added.
He expressed happiness that the Senate recommended that the HYPPADEC Secretariat be named after the late senator.
The Senate had called on the federal government to immortalise the late Senator by naming the Hydro-Electric Power Producing Areas Development Commission (HYPPADEC) Secretariat in Minna, Niger State after him.
