An online news platform had
reported that the Speaker used public funds to sponsor 300 guests for the
birthday.
Lanre Lasisi, the Special
Adviser on Media and Publicity to the Speaker, House of Representatives,
Honourable Femi Gbajabiamila, has denied a report that his principal took 300
guests to Dubai for his mother’s birthday.
This has now been denied by
Gbajabiamila as seen in the statement issued below.
“The story carried by
Sahara Reporters on Monday, March 2, 2020, alleging that @SpeakerGbaja, used
public funds to take 300 guests to Dubai for his mother’s birthday is
categorically false.
The Speaker, his family and
a few friends were in Dubai to celebrate the 90th birthday anniversary of
Alhaja Lateefat Olufunke Gbajabiamila, the Speaker’s mother.
For the records, this event
was strictly for family members and a few childhood friends for which no public
funds were appropriated or expended.
Indeed not a single
politician nor a legislator was present at the event”.
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