The former chairman of the House committee on appropriation, Hon Jubri Abdulmumin has said that the Speaker of the House of Representatives and other principal officers he fingered in the budget appropriation scandal that led to his resignation of the chairmanship of the committee  have resorted to desperate moves to drag the entire House of Representatives into the case of gross abuse of office.

The lawmaker further said the move was to bring him in direct collusion course with the entire members of the House. He further alleged that the group was also recruiting elements of the Nigeria police to “kidnap, harass, blackmail and intimidate me into silence.”

In a release to the media, Hon Abdulmumin said that but for the fact that he travelled, he would have been in harms way. He pointed fingers at four lawmakers as being in the thick of the plot.

The statement said, “I have to state this very clearly because these quartet have resorted to desperate moves to drag the entire House of Representatives into the case of gross abuse of office I have levelled against them as individual presiding and principal officers of the House. This is clearly a mischievous move to set me on collision with the entire House. They have also recruited four from the very few members of their cabal to use some elements of the Nigeria Police to kidnap, harass, blackmail and intimidate me into silence.

“As God Almighty will have it, I had travelled out of town before they could execute their evil plan. God is always with the innocent.”

He further urged his colleagues to call on Speaker Yakubu Dogara to restrain the three other principal officers.

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