Dogara’s aide denies distributing $25,000 to house members

Jibrin had alleged that the Speaker, Yakubu Dogara had started giving members $25,000 each to pass a vote of confidence on him.

On his Twitter handle, Jibrin accused Zakari Mohammed, Jagaba Adams Jagaba and the Deputy Chief of Staff to the Speaker, CID Maduabum as the coordinators of the$25,000 bribe.

He said: “Fellow Nigerians, in a desperate attempt, Speaker Dogara and the three others have opened a register for a vote of confidence signature.”

Reacting to the accusation on Thursday in a statement, Maduabum said the speaker never gave him money to distribute to lawmakers at any time.

According to him, “Let me state that the Hon. Speaker, Rt. Hon. Dogara Yakubu did not give me or anyone any money to give to any member of the House of Representatives. This charge, as usual, exists in the demented and diseased imagination of the drowning Abdulmumin who is desperately grasping at every straw in his deception, campaign of calumny, demagoguery and propaganda which he has unleashed on innocent public officers whose sole offence is that they fatally misjudged Hon. Abdulmumin’s instability of character and unsuitability to hold public office.

“It is true that he loves mentioning my name, but is he so unintelligent not to notice a pattern? Hon. Abonta disagrees with him on national television, he immediately adds his name in a petition to EFCC; Hon. Jagaba grants an interview against him, he adds his name in the charge sheet which he carries about. The Appropriations Committee members disown him, he immediately alleges inducement of $20,000; the whole House rises against him, then immediately everyone is given $25,000 USD each.

“Can he not see that no one needs to be induced when he is on a one man riot squad to denigrate all members of the House and pull down the institution of the National Assembly?”

Maduabum said Dogara is a God-fearing and could not be dented Jibrin’s tissue of lies, fables and penchant for fictional accusations and idiocy.

“What Abdulmumin is saying is that billions of naira is being shared to members to pursue an inconsequential fellow. What an absurdity from a celebrated con man and pathological liar. I wish to state that since this attack is on my personal integrity, I reserve the right to defend myself with all the arsenal at my disposal within the ambit of the law,” he said.