The former Chairman of the House of Representatives’ Appropriation Committee, Abdulmumin Jibrin, has said he will never apologise to the Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, for accusing him of corruption.
Jibrin, who was removed as Chairman of the Appropriation Committee last week, had accused Dogara of removing him because he refused to allocate projects worth N40bn to the speaker in the 2016 budget.
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Dogara, who denied the allegations, had earlier today given Jibrin a seven-day ultimatum to retract his allegations or face legal actions.
Jibrin, however, insisted that he won’t back down on his allegations.
“I will not and will never apologise,” Jibrin tweeted in reaction to the ultimatum.
Apart from vowing to stand by his allegation, the lawmaker explained via tweets that he was working to get the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and Independent Corrupt Practices Commission to investigate Dogara.
“Speaker Dogara has threatened legal action on me. Quite predicable.
“I know he (Dogara) will rush to court in order to invoke the House rules that matters in court cannot be heard on the floor,” he said in one of the tweets, while confirming that the Speaker had threatened him with “predictable” legal actions.
“He failed to realise that the law is not intended to protect corrupt people. It is such a shame.
“I have responded to their allegations rather than respond to mine,he is rushing to court. I stand by my allegations &will not withdraw them!
“I am happy to announce that my lawyers have officially approached the EFCC and the ICPC towards working out a date for me to personally submit my petition against Speaker Yakubu Dogara, Deputy Speaker Yusuf Lasun Whip Alhassan Doguwa and Minority Leo Ogor.
“I believe once a date is agreed with the anti corruption agencies we would have begun the process of making these characters pay for abusing their office
“I will not and will never apologize to a shameless fraud in high office who has glaringly abused public trust like speaker Dogara and three others”
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