Abdulmumin Jibrin
The man championing the campaign to unseat Speaker Yakubu Dogara
for alleged padding of the budget, Abdulmumin Jibrin, has himself gone
to court to stop the police from arresting or questioning him over
allegations bordering on claims of his complicity in the matter.
Besides that, Saturday Vanguard has also obtained court papers in
which Jibrin is also seeking judicial relief to stop the House of
Representatives from reconvening or suspending him from the House of
Representatives.
The two moves by Jibrin, indicative of the dramatic change in the shape of the battle in the House of Representatives. Jibrin had few days ago claimed to be on the moral high ground with sufficient support of members to remove the speaker.
In suit No: FHC/ABJ/CS/539 between Jibrin on one part and The
Nigeria Police, the Inspector General of Police, the Commissioner of
Police, FCT, Dogara, Deputy Speaker, Yusuf Lasun, Leo Ogor and the
Attorney General of the Federation, Jibrin is asking the court to stop
the police from arresting him.
In an affidavit attached to the suit, Jibrin alleged that the principal officers of the House named in the suit have “plotted
with the 1st to 3rd respondents (Police, IG and Compol, FCT) to nab him
and also put him out of circulation and so as to lay their hands on the
said documents and destroy the evidence therein and avoid a leakage of
their roles in the budget issue.”
Also in another suit with No. FHC/ABJ/CS/595 against the House of
Representatives, the Clerk, the Speaker and 12 other members of the
House, Jibrin is among other things seeking an order of the court
stopping the House from suspending him from the House pending the
determination of the substantive suit.
In an affidavit deposed in the Court, Jibrin said if the respondents/defendants “are
not immediately restrained, he would be suspended as a member of the
House and this will greatly prejudice him and thousands of his
constituents who rely on him to afford them their due representations in
the Federal legislature.”
In the said affidavit, the sacked Appropriations Committee Chairman
said he was aware that they held meetings wherein they agreed to
urgently reconvene the House which is presently on recess with a
desperate agenda to suspend him as a member of the House.
This is in sharp contrast to series of statements Jibrin released
in which he called for the reconvening of the House to address the
allegations he raised against the Speaker and 13 others. He had alleged
among others that he had the signatures of more 250 members seeking to
remove Dogara from office.
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