The All Progressives Congress, APC, has said it would not
sanction its members involved in the budget-padding scandal rocking the House
of Representatives.
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| Dogara and Jibrin |
House Speaker, Yakubu Dogara and sacked
chairman of Appropriation Committee in the House, Abdulmumuni Jibrin, have been
locked in a battle of wits regarding allegations of padding. However, speaking
with journalists, yesterday, in Abuja, Deputy National Chairman (North) of the
party, Senator Lawal Shuaibu, said APC could only sanction members who run foul
of its constitution. He said: “Article 7 subsection 5 of APC gives us the power
to do certain things; you see what we are doing we are doing the right thing
but only that we don’t want it in public gallery. “What is padding? The party
does not sanction anybody on that. What concerns us is where any member
contravenes the party constitution in his conduct. ‘’That is why I referred you
to Article 7 subsection 5 of our party constitution. We are not a law enforcement
organization and so we do not enforce law. ‘’We only ensure that the
constitution is complied with; every member of the party is answerable to the
party and answerable to its constitution. ‘’The two members that are subjected
to this are elected or appointed members of the party including those that are
holding public office. ‘’So, you expect the party to sit down and watch? No, we
have to do our work. The issue of us sweeping anything under the carpet does
not arise at all. But we do not do it in the market place, we do it in the
party secretariat.” Our 12.7million members pay N100 each On funding of the
party, he said the APC currently had a membership of over 12million who paid a
due of N100 each to the party. “We have a credible source of funding. Every
member of APC in this country shall pay N100. So far, on our data base, we have
12.7million registered members, others are still waiting for us to just open
our portal to do their membership registration.
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