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Buhari grants kid Rep Jibrin audience 16 months after suspension

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9 years ago

December 28, 2017

Hon. Abdulmumuni Jibrin suspended from the House of Reps in 2016 on Thursday met with President Muhammadu Buhari in Aso Rock.

The rep said he was there to sympathise with the president whose son has been hospitalised following a motot-bike crash in Abuja Tuesday.

But Jibrin declined to say if he met with the president to seek his intervention over his predicament.

“Well, I cannot comment in that regard. The most important is that I saw him and he is in a very high spirit. I greeted him like a son and he spoke to me like a father,” he said.

He however described it as normal that his constiturnts ask questions about his reinstatement.

“Of course Nigerians like justice, my constituency has been suspended for 16 months, so it is only normal that people will talk and ask questions. Why are we not back on the aspect of court case that has been lingering in the court for the past 16 months. I think these are some of the reasons people are raising issues in the public glare,” he said.

Jibrin tried to blow the whistle on the principal officers in the House for budget padding He was the chairman of the House committee on appropriation. The action stirred up his colleagues and Aso Rock against him, and all his efforts to meet Buhari then was blocked by the so-called cabal.

He said his experience as “a learning curve” and said “it is fine.”

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Jibrin also said his case is similar to that of the senator representing Borno South, Ali Ndume, who was also suspended but recently recalled by the Senate on the orders of the Court.

He wondered why his case is being delayed by the judiciary.

“The same case, similar case, identical case was dispensed with within two months; but I am still hanging in the court system. But again, I know the Nigerian judiciary is just, so I am pretty sure that soonest I will be able to get judgement and my constituency will soon get back to the house,” he said.