A former chairman of the Senate Committee on Culture and Tourism, Senator Hassan Barata, has said that he has no diplomatic passport.
Barata, in a telephone interview on Sunday in Abuja, described as a fabrication, an allegation that he was detained in Saudi Arabia for overstaying. He also said that he remained a committed member of the All Progressives Congress.
He fingered his political opponents for the report, stressing that he had not been out of Nigeria for some time now.
The former senator stated that he did not have any business in Saudi Arabia that could make him to overstay there, noting that the report of his alleged arrest and detention was the handiwork of his detractors.
He denied a media report that had claimed he was arrested in Saudi Arabia for overstaying and for claiming to be an embassy worker.
Barata told our correspondent that he did not travel to the Islamic kingdom, and as such, could not have been arrested and detained in the Islamic nation.
Barata pointed out that the allegation against him must have been cooked up by his detractors who also alleged that he had defected to the Peoples Democratic Party.
He said, “I don’t hold a diplomatic passport. So, I believe the allegation must have been fabricated by my political detractors who also alleged that I defected from the APC to the PDP.
“Aside the fact that I am still a member of the APC, the question is, what has the Saudi issue got to do with politics? This shows that the allegation was fabricated by my detractors; it is all lies because I was not in detention in Saudi Arabia and I have not defected from the APC.”
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