The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara has lambasted Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC over allegations that the National Assembly had been padding the national budget for four years.
The Speaker in a statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media and Public Affairs, Mr. Turaki Hassan, described Tinubu as “ignorant of the budgetary process.”
The statement read in part
“Only the ignorant with dubious academic certificates will say the maker of a document has padded the document that only he can constitutionally make.
“Finally, we advise Asiwaju Tinubu to be circumspect in his use of language.
“In this case, he spoke as a spokesperson of depravity. Our reaction must, therefore, be seen as a provoked counter-punch.
“Anyone can descend into the gutter if he so wishes, but no one has a monopoly of gutter language.
“We won’t run an adult day care center anymore on matters like this.”
Tinubu had, in a statement issued by his media aide, Tunde Rahman accused the 8th National Assembly, specifically the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, of allegedly hijacking and padding national budgets for the four years that the party had been in power.
He claimed that the two presiding officers of the National Assembly always padded the budgets with pet projects that profited them while they cut funds appropriated to projects that would have benefited Nigerians.
