The Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Basic Education, Zakari Mohammed, has said he was ready to appear before any agency to prove his innocence over the budget padding allegation. He challenged the former House Chairman on Appropriation, Abdulmumin Jibrin, to present to the public, any evidence of corrupt allegations against him.
Jibrin had on Saturday said he submitted Mohammed’s name along with seven others to the EFCC as one of the corrupt members of the House surrounding Speaker Yakubu Dogara.
But in a statement yesterday, Mohammed said he was “more than ready to appear before any agency or anywhere to prove my innocence. I have no skeletons in my cupboard.”
He said he had good track records as a civil servant before joining politics and that a person of Jibrin’s character could not do anything to his personality.
“Ordinarily, I would have ignored his face-saving tweets but the fact that he is deceptively carrying many Nigerians along makes it imperative to protect my hard-earned integrity and about 10 years of unblemished career as a political office holder.
“He was so overwhelmed by his ambition to drag me into his plot to the extent that he referred to me as the chairman of the House Committee on higher education because of his orchestrated mission against me.
“I have no file with EFCC or its allied agency but the same cannot be said of the former Appropriation Committee chairman. Nigerians should therefore disregard his accusations because they are as a result of frustration of his removal,” he said.
