Dogara said it only took a simple question from President Buhari to the former chairman of house committee on appropriation, to make the allegation fizzle away. Yakubu Dogara, speaker of the house of representatives, has revealed how President Muhammadu Buhari shut Abdulmumin Jibrin up over the widely reported Budget Padding.Dogara, in his biography authored by Dele Momodu, said it only took a simple question from President Buhari to the former chairman of house committee on appropriation, to make the allegation fizzle away.The Speaker revealed that on meeting with Buhari to make his case, Jibrin was asked by the president if it is possible for four officers to pad a budget in a national assembly made up of 469 members — and told him not to raise the issue with him again without providing an answer or proof. “As a principled and experienced leader that the President is, he sought to know where the other leaders of NASS were when the budget was padded by just four leaders of the house.
