The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is finally wading into the
budget padding scandal rocking the House of Representatives.
The embattled former Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on
Appropriation, Abdulmumin Jubrin, has appeared at the APC headquarters in
Abuja for a meeting with the party leadership in respect of the crisis in
the House.
The APC Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Mr Timi Frank, had asked the
Oyegun-led party leadership to resign for failing to intervene in the
House budget padding saga.
Honorable Abdulmumin Jubrin is accusing the Speaker of the House of
Representatives, Yakubu Dogara and the House leadership of padding the
2016 budget.
The APC had stated that it made several attempts to reach Mr Jibrin
through calls and text messages, but he maintained that it would have been
very difficult for him to attend because of “an attempt by the quartet of
Speaker Dogara and others, who were determined to kidnap me until few days
when my lawyers requested and got maximum protection for me from the DSS
and Police”.
Mr Jubrin, after agreeing to honour the invitation, however, noted that
the invitation “did not in anyway indicate it is a disciplinary
committee”.
Mr Jubrin said, via his Twitter account, “APC will do the rightful thing
by throwing its weight to support our resolve to wipe out corruption in
the House and direct Speaker Dogara, Dep Lasun, Whip Alhassan Doguwa and
Minority Leader, Leo Ogor, to reconvene the House immediately and step
down and face their imminent prosecution and save the party and our dear
country from further embarrassment”.