The ousted former chairman of the House of Representatives committee on appropriation, Abdulmumin Jibrin, has added another name to the list of corrupt lawmakers in the House of Representatives.
The Senate Leader, Ali Ndume, has dismissed the ongoing altercation between the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara and Abdulmumin Jibrin, former Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriation, as mere media hype borne out of personal differences.
A member of the House of Representatives, Lawal Gumau, has given insight into how lawmakers make additions into the budget, which has come to be known as padding.
Abdulmumin Jibrin, the ousted Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation, has described as shameful the threat of Speaker Yakubu Dogara to sue him for damages over corruption allegations he made against him and some other principal officers of the house.
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has given Abdulmumin Jibrin, the ousted former Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriation, a seven day ultimatum to tender an unreserved apology to him and retract all allegations made against him or face legal action.
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has called for thorough investigation into the allegation of budget padding by the leadership of the Federal House of Representatives.
He expressed this opinion while speaking with journalists after a closed-door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the state house on Monday.
