The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said the party is in the process of reuniting House of Reps Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, and Jibrin Abdulmunini, former chairman of the House Appropriation Committee.
The two have been at loggerheads over allegations of padding of the 2016 budget.
Speaking after a long meeting with Jibrin on Tuesday, Lawal Shuaibu, said: “We are discussing with them and it is an ongoing consultation, we are not done with them, we sat with the speaker, we just finished sitting with him and we would continue to sit with him”.
“I, that summoned him, the national secretary of the party and the national vice chairman of his zone sat down to discuss, there is nothing like passing any judgment on any member of the party, we only play our role as the umpire in this matter to see how we can create some atmosphere of peace and unity among our members.
“I was reading today in the paper that we called him to discipline him, discipline him on what? whatever happens in the house of representatives or the senate under the constitution and their rules, they are immune.
“What we did actually was that we heard from him. We have heard earlier from the speaker but because it was not in the newspapers, like you just went and published nobody knew we held a meeting with the speaker,” he said.
“I want to say what we discussed, honestly speaking was to get a better brief because we have to be carried along”, he added.
Briefing newsmen earlier, Jibrin explained that “I’m here on the invitation of our great party, the APC; we discussed extensively on the crisis in the house of representatives.
“We will continue to discuss and engage ourselves, I will continue to honour the invitation of our party and I am sure that whatever it is we decide you will know in due course.”
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