Budget Padding: Embattled Speaker Dogara runs to President Buhari for self explanation
The embattled
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, will today meet President Muhammadu Buhari over the budget padding scandal rocking
the lower legislative chamber.
According to President Buhari’s list of engagements for Friday, seen
by this newspaper, Mr. Buhari will meet Mr. Dogara at 4.30p.m.
The meeting is at the instance of the Speaker, presidency sources said.
Associates of Mr. Dogara said the speaker sought audience with the
President over the allegations levelled against him by a former chairman
of the appropriations committee of the House, Abdulmumin Jibrin, that
he abused his office and committed budget fraud.
The meeting is holding about 24 hours after the governing All
Progressives Congress ordered Mr. Jibrin to stop further public comment
on the matter.
Those familiar with the matter said Mr. Dogara sought to see the
President “to offer personal explanation” on the allegations against
him.
Our sources said the speaker is worried that the President might
believe Mr. Jibrin’s claims if he did not make efforts to state his own
side of the story to the nation’s number one citizen.
Mr. Dogara will also be requesting the President to help call Mr. Jibrin and his backers to order, our sources said.
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