Nigeria, March 30 -- The Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) on Tuesday reacted to a video clip showing how its chairman, Umar Danladi, physically assaulted a security guard at Banex Plaza in Wuse, Abuja.

PREMIUM TIMES reported how Mr Danladi was seen in a viral five-minute video slapping and kicking the yet-to-be-identified security guard.

This newspaper had contacted the Head, Press and Public Relations of the CCT, Ibraheem Al-Hassan, who denied that Mr Danladi assaulted the guard.

In a later statement, titled, 'I was rather assaulted - CCT Chairman', on Tuesday, Mr Al-Hassan accused the guard of being rude and issuing a threat against the tribunal chairman following an altercation between them over a parking space on the plaza's premises...