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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