As the budget padding scandal continue to rock the lower
legislative chamber, embattled Speaker of the House of Representatives,
Yakubu Dogara, on Friday, met President Muhammadu Buhari at the
Presidential villa, Abuja.
It was learnt that the speaker came into the Villa at about 2:25 pm and went straight into the president’s office.
Speaking with state house reporters as he emerged from the
closed-door meeting at exactly 2:58 pm, Dogara stated that budget padding is
not an offence,vowing not to step down from office despite growing
calls on him to do so.
Premium Times
reported that when approached by State House press on the allegations
of budget padding levelled against him by the former chairman of the
Appropriation committee, Abdulmumin Jibrin, Speaker Dogara simply said;
"I am a lawyer and have been a legislator for a while, I never knew of an offence called budget padding," he said, adding that budget padding is not an offence against any Nigerian law.
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