Senator Bulkachuwa on damage control, says “I never influenced my wife’s court decisions”

Senator Adamu Bulkachuwa, who represented Bauchi north in the senate, has embarked on some damage control, trying to clarify his narratives on the gloor during the Senate valedictory session.

He noted that he never influenced the decisions of his wife and former president of the Court of Appeal

Recall that the former senator, while speaking at the senate valedictory session, said he had often “encroached on” his wife’s space while she was in office.

The former senate President, Ahmad Lawan, who presided over the session, had interrupted the senator before he spoke any further.

“Distinguished, I don’t think this is a good idea going in this direction,” Lawan had said.

Bulkachuwa’s comment had generated reactions as many Nigerians called for investigations into his claim.

But speaking with BBC Hausa on the issue, the former senator said Lawan did not allow him to finish his thoughts.

He said the help he spoke about was not in a negative sense.

“The way we live with her, I never told her how you should do it, how you should do your case, or how you should do it with your office. We don’t talk about this even at home,” he said.

“I was not even allowed to finish. I just started with some words like thanking her, that she was patient with me, and that I am in politics and she is in law.

“Then the help that I told her to do, this is her nature, her behaviour, I didn’t even wait to say what kind of help, there are more than a hundred kinds of help, which every employee, whether legal, whether he is a doctor or an engineer, anyone can help in his work.

“Help does not mean that you break the law or do something wrong.”