Chairman, Senate Committee on Culture and Tourism, Senator Mathew
Urhoghide, has lashed out at former President, Olusegun Obasanjo for
saying the National Assembly was made up of “armed robbers and rogues.”
Obasanjo while addressing State House Correspondents after a closed
door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa,
Abuja said the padding scandal rocking the National Assembly confirmed
his earlier notion about the current federal lawmakers he described as
thieves and rogues.
Urhoghide, in his reaction said the lawmakers deserved an unreserved apology from the former President.
According to the senator, “I believe former President Obasanjo has
premised his denigrating comment on the on-going sordid accusations on
2016 budget between Hon Abdumumuni Jibrin, the erstwhile Chairman, House
of Representatives Committee on Appropriations and the leadership of
the House of Representatives.
“What is going on in the media is indeed disgraceful if actually the
mentioned House members did the padding of the 2016 budget. I and others
in the Senate deserve and demand unreserved apology from Chief Obasanjo
for casting aspersions and denigrating our individual integrity and the
institution we represent.”
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