Leader of the Senate, Opeyemi Bamidele, has faulted claims that he is working against the interests of the Yoruba in the National Assembly.

Bamidele described the claims as baseless, false and unfounded, noting that he had been dutifully serving the interests of Ekiti Central, Ekiti State, South-West and Nigeria by extension since his election into the National Assembly.

He made the clarification, yesterday, in a statement by his Directorate of Media and Public Affairs, challenging any person with documentary evidence to come out and present such.

Some media platforms had quoted the Senate Leader as saying: “If we allow the regional system in Nigeria, we would have automatically given the easterners Biafra.”

But faulting the statement, Bamidele said he never made such a declaration, which he said, was an attempt to pit him against the Yoruba and other ethnic nationalities in the Federation.

He added that he did not make any statement about the regional government in line with the 1960 and 1963 Constitution at the September 2024 Senate Retreat on the Review of the 1999 Constitution.

“The claim is far from the truth. I never spoke about the return to the regional government at any forum; neither did I make a claim that ‘If we allow the regional system in Nigeria, we would have automatically given the easterners Biafra.’

“It is a sheer case of misinformation and deliberate fake news, which do not in any way represent my worldview about federal governance structure,” Bamidele said.

Bamidele, however, warned that he would not hesitate to legally challenge any individual or establishment fabricating and circulating fake news against his person and office.