Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has said that he was quoted out of context when he spoke to journalists on the budget padding allegations made against him by a member of the house, Abdulmumin Jibrin.
The Deputy Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on National Planning and Economic Matters, Bashir Baballe has admitted that there were insertions in the 2016 Budget after it has been debated on the floor of the House.
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has waded into the ongoing budget-padding controversy in the House of Representatives, involving the former Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriation, Abdulmumin Jibrin and the Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, asking the former to stop going public with his allegations.
There is no letting up in the drama that has characterized the removal of Abdulmumin Jibrin as the chairman of the House of Representatives’ committee on appropriation as the Kano State lawmaker has not stopped “singing” about “how fantastically corrupt” Speaker Yakubu Dogara is.
