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 budget padding scandal rocking Nigeria’s House of Representatives is back in public domain as Abdulmumin Jibrin alleges that Speaker Yakubu Dogara was planning with the 12 others to kill him.
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.
Former chairman of the house committee on appropriation, Abdulmumin Jibrin, who has been making series of corruption allegation against Speaker Yakubu Dogara and three other principal officers of the House, has been summoned by his party, the All Progressives Congress, APC.
The leader of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila has exonerated himself from the ongoing budget-padding brouhaha rocking the green chamber of the National assembly, while urging Nigerians not to judge the Speaker, Yakubu Dogara and the three other principal officers currently embroiled in the controversy.
