Budget-Padding Tracker: Dogara as Speaker is dangerous, potentially disastrous – Jibrin

Embattled former Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriation, Abdulmummin Jibrin, on Sunday said that keeping Yakubu Dogara as the Speaker of the House of Representative is potentially dangerous.

This was contained in a letter addressed to the chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC), John Odigie-Oyegun. Jibrin noted that he made an error in supporting Dogara’s emergence as the Speaker.

He further alleged that Dogara’s political godfather was a former Deputy Governor of Osun State, Iyiola Omisore.

The letter reads, “His godfather is Sen Iyola Omisore. Speaker Dogara is of the habit of taking standing committee chairmen to swear oath of allegiance before Omisore.

“During the buildup to the appointment of committee chairmen. I had a terrible disagreement with him. I stayed far away from him.

“From the appointment of committee chairmen, to splitting of committees, to non-disclosure of the finances of the house, to his greed of unifying everything under his control, commercialisation of bills, divisive approach across ethnic and religious line, arrogance and power drunk, corruption and fraud during the budget period among many others.

“Who will I tell or run to having played such a leading role in bringing him on board? He operates alone, keep weird relationships with top politicians.

“I was in London when he insisted that he wanted to see me. He came to my hotel room and we talked for hours. I gave him a lot of advice but I never knew it was getting in from one ears and out from the other.”

Jibrin said that Dogara was not loyal to the APC and that he will so renegade on the party.

“In a nutshell, it will be dangerous and potentially disastrous for the party to keep speaker Yakubu Dogara on that seat.

“I seek the understanding and forgiveness from you, our leaders and every member of the APC family that was hurt by my action. Thank God I will be 40 September 9.

“I promise that moving forward, I will dedicate and completely commit myself to achieving the goals set out by the party. This case should be served as a lesson for everyone in the future.”

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