President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday, July 25, met with ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo – The former president said said there is no need to investigate the allegations of the 2016 budget padding in the National Assembly – Obasanjo also said men and women of integrity should be in the National Assembly, urging the president to be very vigilant
Former president Olusegun Obasanjo,
has said there is no need to investigate the allegations and
counter-allegations of the 2016 budget padding in the National Assembly, Daily
Trust reports. Obasanjo said this in reaction to the current budget padding
accusation and counter accusation between the leadership of the House of
Representatives and Abdulmumin Jibrin, the sacked chairman of the House of Reps
Appropriation Committee.
The ex-president speaking to State House
reporters on Monday, July 25, shortly after meeting behind closed-doors with President
Muhammadu Buhari said the country should rather get men of integrity in the
federal parliament.
The two leaders met behind closed doors at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. He
said: “It’s not question of investigation, we should get men and women of
integrity in the place and the President should be very vigilant, whatever
should not pass should not pass.” “Well, if you said that I have said it in the
past and if there are people who didn’t believe what I said in the past then,
you can now see that what has come out confirms what I said in the past. Then
what I said in the past is what I will say now,’‘ he added. The Nation reports
that the former president also said the recent happenings concerning the 2016
Budget scandal in the National Assembly have vindicated him. On his visit to
the Villa, he disclosed that he went to deliver some messages to the president.
“Not too long ago, I was in Liberia and Gambia and I have messages these two countries
will want me to deliver to the president.
“Also, only yesterday I came back from
Seychelles Island where I attended this year’s Annual General meeting of Africa
Export Development Bank. And there are aspects of the proceedings that I think
I should update the President,” he said. Adulmumin Jibrin, who was removed as
the chairman of the committee last week, has revealed more shocking details on
how 10 standing committees secretly injected constituency projects worth N284
billion into the 2016 budget without the knowledge of the House. He also
claimed that the speaker, Yakubu Dogara, allegedly convinced him to ship over
N20 billion into the budget through Service Wide Vote.
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