UPDATED: NDDC Scandal: No ninth assembly lawmaker received any contract, Akpabio replies Reps

The speaker had, on Tuesday, given Mr Akpabio a 48 hours ultimatum to publish names and other details of National Assembly members who allegedly benefited from contracts of the NDDC.

Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, has stated that he never referred to members of the 9th National Assembly as beneficiaries of NDDC contracts.The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, had, on Tuesday, given Mr Akpabio a 48 hours ultimatum to publish names and other details of National Assembly members who allegedly benefited from contracts of the NDDC.

Mr Akpabio, in his letter, backtracked and said most lawmakers in the previous assemblies got contracts without their knowledge, as it was handled by the chairmen of both committees. “The Director Projects forwarded to me 19 old contracts amounting to nine billion naira which the NDDC Chairman in the house insist the IMC pay for.

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