I Demand Apology Or Face Legal Actions Says Dogara To Jibrin.

RT. HON. Dogara Yakurbu, Speaker House Of Rep.

The Speaker, House of Representatives, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, has asked the sacked Chairman, Appropriation Committee of the House, Mr. Abdulmumin Jibrin, to retract alleged defamatory publications against his person and tender an unreserved apology within seven days.

Dogara, who made this demand through his lawyers, Prof. Joash Ojo (SAN) and Prof. Joash Amupitan (SAN), said Jibrin should be ready for a legal battle if he refused to publish the retraction and the apology in prominent print and electronic media within the seven-day ultimatum.

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Part of Dogara’s letter to Jibrin reads,  “The attention of our client has been drawn to a libellous press statement you issued on Monday, July 25, 2016, which was made available to members of the press (print and electronic media) titled, ‘THE CORRUPT SPEAKER YAKUBU DOGARA AND HIS 3-MAN CABAL.’
“In the said publication, you published words to the following effect concerning our client and three other principal members of the House of Representatives:
 ‘Honourable colleagues and fellow Nigerians, I wish to make further revelations.

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‘Speaker Yakubu Dogara and his senior cabal, namely Deputy Speaker, Lasun; Whip, Doguwa; and Minority Leader, Ogor; has (sic) promoted corruption so badly in the House that if President Muhammadu Buhari with his disdain for corruption and corrupt people has the slightest idea, he will ban the QUARTET permanently from the Villa before they eventually allow for proper and unbiased investigation by the House.