The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, has declared that he is not under pressure from any quarter to resign his appointment.

CEOAFRICA news desk gathered that the speaker has issued this declaration in a statement issued by his special adviser on Media and Publicity, Imam Imam, to discredit the rumour of his alleged resignation published by some news papers.

The statement reads: “For all intents and purposes, this is part of a larger campaign to smear the person and integrity of the Number Four Citizen of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

“The story did not come as a surprise considering that it is one in a line of similar fabricated stories dished out about Tambuwal by Pilot Newspaper for sometimes now.

“While we don’t want to believe that the owners of the newspaper have allowed their platform to be used for a smear campaign on the legislature and its principal officers, we are constrained to say that allowing falsehood to be published in the guise of truth takes seeking-relevance (by the paper) too far.

“We want to assure Nigerians that the leadership of the House of Representatives is ever focused on delivering its constitutional mandate and will not be distracted by the antics of those who have something to hide.

“Speaker Tambuwal and his colleagues won’t resign their appointments and they won’t be distracted from their stated goals.”