BREAKING: President Buhari in closed-door meeting with Dogara

President Muhammadu Buhari and the Leader of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara are currently meeting in the Aso Rock presidential villa in Abuja.

Dogara arrived president’s office for a closed door meeting at about 2.30pm.

Details of the meeting are yet to emerge as at the time of this report as the discussing is ongoing.

Bashir Ahmad, special assistant to the president on new media, disclosed this on Twitter:

Speaker, House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara visits the Presidential Villa, and currently in a meeting with President Buhari.

— Bashir Ahmad (@BashirAhmaad) August 5, 2016

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Dogara told reporters that budget padding is not a crime and promised not to step down from office despite growing calls on him to do so.

He said: “I am a lawyer and have been a legislator for a while, I never knew of an offence called budget padding.”

The speaker added that since he has not committed any offence, the question of him resigning “does jot even arise.”

This came as the former Chairman, House Committee on Appropriation, Hon. Abdulmumin Jibrin alleged that the leadership of the  lower chamber of the Nigerian Senate padded the 2016 budget.

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