Padding: For exposing Dogara, you’ll be ‘Heavily’ punished, House of Reps tells Jibrin

– The Chief Whip of the House of Representatives, Mr Alhassan Ado-Doguwa said former chairman, House committee on appropriation, Mr Abdulmumin Jibrin, would not escape punishment

– He said Jibrin’s allegation about budget padding were misrepresentation of facts to avenge his removal as a committee chairman

For allegedly “bringing the image of the legislature into disrepute” the Chief Whip of the House of Representatives, Mr. Alhassan Ado-Doguwa said former chairman, House committee on appropriation, Mr Abdulmumin Jibrin, would not escape punishment.

The chief whip said Jibrin’s pronouncements about budget padding were “misrepresentation of facts” to destroy the House and avenge his removal as a committee chairman, Punch is reporting.

“His rushing to court is sheer cowardice and an act of escapism. Jibrin’s legal strategy is to deploy a judicial instrument to protect himself against possible sanctions from the House over his baseless and fictitious allegations to defame and destroy our integrity in the eyes of the Nigerian public.

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“He has also succeeded in subjecting the National Assembly to disrepute and institutional damage, which apparently contravened our internal standing rules and specifically, sections 24 and 33 of the Legislatives Houses Powers and Privileges Act.

“These clear violations of our internal code of legislative conduct must attract legislative sanctions against Jibrin.

“Nigerians should know that the statements and pronouncements made by Jibrin were mere misrepresentation of facts.

“Having realised that he is already consumed, he is now resorting to the court options, (in)which I believe he will lose out as well.”

The chief whip also threatened to sue Jibrin in his personal capacity after the House would have taken a position on him.

But Jibrin in another statement Instead, made another allegation against Dogara, saying the Speaker was making massive withdrawal of funds to offer to members to fight him.

“I also heard on good authority that a close associate of Dogara, who is the Chief Executive of a well-known Federal Government agency, has been approaching members with offer of money to support the Speaker,” Jibrin added in the statement.

Jibrin he written to the Presidential Advisory Committee on Anti-Corruption on Monday “requesting an appointment to make a detailed presentation on all the allegations that constitute Dogara-gate.”

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“I have commenced briefing the diplomatic community and will in the next few days provide a comprehensive briefing to the British High Commission and the American, French and German embassies.

“The utterances of Speaker Dogara in the last few days, like his public pronouncement that padding is not an offence, have clearly confirmed my innocence.

“I have, therefore, petitioned the Public Complaints Commission and the National Human Rights Commission to enforce and protect my fundamental human rights,’’ he added.

Recall that Abdulmumin Jibrin has said he’s sorry for the role he played in the emergence of Yakubu Dogara as speaker.

He said this in a letter written to the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) John Oyegun, said he wrote the letter for four very important reasons.

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