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Abdulmumin Jibrin, has said, Speaker Yakubu Dogara, in his “foolishly” ways, can’t compel him to reveal more lawmakers and members of executive arm involved I the budget padding brouhaha.

According to Jibrin, the recent statement signed by 10 lawmakers, including Femi Gbajabiamila, House Majority Leader, alleging “gross abuse” as a reason he was sacked as Appropriation Committee Chairman of the House, was only a means of dragging as many people as possible into the matter.

He said they were doing that to use it as a shield or create a situation that “in their foolish way of thinking, will compel me to implicate the six other principal officers or other people both in NASS and the executive arm.

“They are obviously looking for co-travellers. You can see the pattern of systematic blackmail desperately trying to drag in the executive and the senate. I am just too strong for them. They need more forces to fight me.”

Jibrin said this in a statement on Friday, where he reacted on the earlier statement signed by 10 leadership
members of the House on Thursday, who said he was sacked as Appropriations Chairman because of his “gross abuse” of
the budget process.

Read also: Jibrin in trouble as Gbajabiamila, others join forces with Dogara

The lawmaker from Kano State, argued that, his accusers failed to mention how he abused the budget process or put it in jeopardy, adding that no ministry, department or agency of government had complained about him.

“No facts, just empty vague allegations just to divert attention and buy time.

“But when Lasun took over as Chairman of the Harmonisation Committee, he did ‘a great job’ for the corrupt quartet. He fantastically loaded the budget with all the poisonous insertions they wanted. I have forwarded documents to that effect to the anti-corruption agencies.

“I am pleading with the security and anti-corruption agencies to be vigilant because Speaker Dogara is moving freely and destroying evidence. Let me assure Nigerians that I will continue with this struggle even if I am
alone,” Jibrin said.

By Ebere Ndukwu …

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