The Nigerian Senate has debunked reports that a man caught on camera kissing another woman in an office is a serving Senator.
The denial came after a viral video surfaced on Tuesday showing a man, whom some social media users alleged to be Senator Yau, the senator representing Zamfara North, romancing and kissing an unidentified woman in what was purported to be an office within the National Assembly complex in Abuja.
The footage sparked widespread reactions across social media, with many commentators alleging that the individual in the video was Senator Yau.
However, the Senate, through its spokesman and Chairman of the Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Senator Yemi Adaramodu, has dissociated the National Assembly and Senator Yau from the incident.
Adaramodu denied that the man in the video is not a senator while in a interview with Sahara Reporters.
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.
