The Senator
representing Nasarawa West in the National Assembly, Abdullahi Adamu
has spoken on the reported N70 million belonging to the Northern
Senators Forum, NSF, allegedly swallowed by monkey.
Speaking in an
interview with Daily Trust, the senator said the allegation was made to
give him a bad name following his position on the electoral act
amendment bill.
According to him, “In order to give a dog a
bad name, they now went to say that they had N70m that I mismanaged or
whatever. The NSF, to the best of my knowledge, has never had N70m, at
least not during my tenure that they purported it was mismanaged. We
inherited something in the region of N62m/N63m that was declared by the
outgone secretary of the forum who happens to be the present Senate
Leader, Ahmad Lawan. I didn’t touch one kobo until when we were going to
Katsina for the NSF retreat. When we were going, we got the same guys
to sign for the transport fares.
Every senator that attended
was paid N250, 000 as allowance for his two days and everyone also got
N150, 000 for return ticket. They got these and they signed. The
remaining money was returned to Abuja and was paid back into the
account. You know, when you talk of money, everybody’s attention will be
attracted. They did this to get attention, but this is just garbage,
and for the allegation, it is up to them to prove.
He
insisted that this started when he protested the change in election
sequence. As a senator, I started talking to people who shared opinion
with me on the passage of the bill. We are talking on it and yes, I have
been holding meetings on it. The worst anybody can do is to suspend me,
but they don’t have any authority over my membership of the senate.”