Nigeria: $3m Bribery Scandal - Reps Fear Crisis May Engulf Speaker, Others

There are strong indications that the emergency session to be convened by the House of Representatives tomorrow is aimed at saving the leadership of the House, LEADERSHIP can authoritatively reveal.

Impeccable sources within the House informed LEADERSHIP last night that the decision to convene the emergency meeting was to allow the House leadership to wash its hands off the embarrassing $3millon bribery allegation trailing the chairman of the House ad hoc committee that probed the fuel subsidy regime, Hon Farouk Lawan.

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