Home POLITICAL What Yakubu Dogara said after meeting with Buhari

What Yakubu Dogara said after meeting with Buhari

423
0

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara met President Muhammadu Buhari at about 2:25 pm on Friday, to discuss an issue suspected to be the budget padding scandal rocking the House of Representatives.Buhari, Saraki and DogaraOn leaving the President’s office at exactly 2:58 pm, Dogara told reporters that he has never heard of “budget padding” and that budget padding is not an offence anywhere in the Nigerian constitution.

Questioned on resignation, he said since he has not committed any offence, the question of him resigning does not even arise.

Transcript of Dogara’s interview after the meeting:

Journalist: Was the issue of alleged budget padding discussed?

READ ALSO  VIDEO: Police, Army team up to arrest armed robbers who invaded First Bank, Abuja

Dogara: What is budget padding?

Journalist: The language emanated from your chambers?

Dogara: I don’t know, educate me. I am a lawyer and the speaker, and I have never heard of the word padding, what does padding mean?

Journalist: Your former chairman of appropriation is saying you padded the budget

Dogara: Ask him, he who alleges must prove, that’s the law in Nigeria

Journalist: Are you not going to defend yourself?

Dogara: Am I before a court?

Journalist: There are people saying you should reconvene the House before September resumption time and step aside for thorough investigations?

Dogara: We have rules and regulations. This is not a mock institution, we operate by rules and we will follow the rules.

READ ALSO  No better presidential candidate than President Buhari - Marwa

Journalist: Will you resign?

Dogara: Resign for what? For what?

Journalist: For the allegation.

Dogara: What is the allegation?

Journalist: That you and some members of the leadership padded the budget?

Dogara: What is padding? You haven’t told me, ask Jibrin what is padding. For me, I studied Law, and I have been in the legislature and all this period, I have never heard of the word padding being an offence under any law.

If I don’t know, you are the media, research the law and let me know

Journalist: Are you worried?

Dogara: Worried for what? Worried over nothing. Why should I be worried? As far as I am concerned, I am not worried over anything.

READ ALSO  COVID-19: FG lifts ban on religious gatherings, banks to resume normal operations

Journalist: Will there be sanctions for Jibrin?

Dogara: I am not the chairman of ethics committee of the House, so, I wouldn’t know, and I don’t know what padding means.

LEAVE A REPLY

Please enter your comment!
Please enter your name here

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.