- The Nigerian Senate has dismissed allegations that the man captured kissing a woman in a viral video is a serving Senator.
The Nigerian Senate has refuted claims that a man seen kissing a woman in a viral video is a sitting Senator.
The clarification follows the circulation of a video on Tuesday showing a man allegedly identified by social media users as Senator Yau engaging in intimate acts with an unknown woman inside what was believed to be an office at the National Assembly complex in Abuja.
The video triggered a wave of reactions online, with many accusing Senator Yau of being the man in the footage.
In response, the Senate, through its spokesperson and Chairman of the Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Senator Yemi Adaramodu, has distanced both the National Assembly and Senator Yau from the incident.
He said, “That’s not the picture of any senator who is presently serving in the Nigerian Senate. That video has been online for the past four to five years.
“I’d seen it before I came to the Senate. Even when I was in the House of Representatives, I saw that video.
“And when you look at the environment, that room is not in the Senate. You can visit the Senate to see the offices. There are no offices that have that kind of architecture. Come to our offices.
“I will open about 10 offices for you to see. There is no office architectural configuration like that. No architecture like that in the Senate.
“And there’s nobody that looks like that. You can come to the Senate; I will grant you access. My conclusion is that it is not true that the man in the video is a senator or that the incident happened in the Senate. That is not the Senate and that is not one of our senators.”
“There is no place like that in the Senate. And that is not the picture of any senator that we know,” he insisted.
