Transparency Watch Defends Yari Against Abduction Claims

Transparency Watch, an advocacy group for transparency and good governance, condemned the attempts to link Senator Abdul’aziz Abubakar Yari to the abduction of six Islamic clerics who were traveling to Talata Mafara in Zamfara State. The group described the rumor that the clerics were abducted at Yari's residence as false.

In a statement by its Director of Public Affairs, Cliff Richards, the group stated that the clerics were actually abducted by suspected bandits in Gidan Suleiman Bature while on their way to Talata Mafara for special prayers. The group accused mischief makers of spreading this false narrative to blackmail Yari following his appointment as the Director-General of the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council.

Transparency Watch urged those behind the allegations to cease their malicious propaganda and allow Yari to focus on his political responsibilities, emphasizing that the clerics were invited by Yari for prayers in support of President Bola Tinubu's re-election.