The All Progressives Congress on Monday fired a letter to Abdulmumuni
Jibrin, a former chairman of the House Committee on Appropriation and
member of the party, summoning him to appear before a disciplinary
committee at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja not later than
Tuesday afternoon.
In the letter, a copy of which PREMIUM TIMES exclusively obtained,
the ruling party said all attempts to reach Mr. Jibrin (who has remained
underground for almost two weeks) by telephone calls and text messages
were unsuccessful, leaving the party with no choice than to write to
him.
In the letter, dated August 1, 2016, and signed by the party’s Deputy
National Chairman for the Northern Zone, Lawal Shuaibu, the APC
expressed cautioned Mr. Jibrin’s over his media campaign against the
Speaker of the House, Yakubu Dogara, and other principal officers over
allegation of budget fraud.
“To say the least, it is absolutely unacceptable to resort to media
war as a means of settling scores without recourse to and/or exhausting
the party’s internal dispute resolution mechanism,” the party said.
Mr. Jibrin was removed as chairman of the Appropriation Committee in
controversial circumstances on July 20 on allegations of betrayal of
trust.
The lawmaker fought back, embarking on a vicious media campaign to
have Mr. Dogara; his deputy, Yusuf Lasun; House Whip, Alhassan Doguwa
and Minority Leader, Leo Ogor, removed from office. (Mr. Ogor is the
only PDP member of the four.)
Mr. Jibrin’s campaign has seen him release details of how the passage
of the 2016 budget was handled by lawmakers in a way that portrayed
them as fraudulent.
On July 29, he disclosed that he had dispatched incriminating
documents to the anti-graft agencies, who immediately swung into action.
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