Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Dialogue and Peaceful Resolutions of Security Challenges in the North, Alhaji Taminu Turaki, yesterday, confronted journalists over quest to know the true position of the committee on claims that it was in contact with the leadership of Boko Haram.
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The minister, who was visibly angry when asked if the committee was in correspondence with Abubalkar Shekau, the top leader of the Islamic sect, angrily said: "I have the right to refuse to talk."
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Drama started after the committee's meeting with members of the diplomatic corps at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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Irked by the persistence of journalists on the committee's position on communication with Boko Haram leaders, he said: "I have responded to it severally. We can't go on and be speaking on the same issue everyday now. Much as I want to be speaking with the press, you must be mature in the way you do things.