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Jibrin Abdulmumin, former chairman of the house of representatives committee, says he is confident that Yakubu Dogara, speaker of the house, will be arrested.

Jibrin has been engaged in a war of words with the speaker whom he had accused alongside some principal officers of an attempt to illegally add N40 billion to the 2016 budget.

Dogara and other officials Jibrin mentioned have denied the allegations, with the speaker giving  his former ally an ultimatum of seven days to tender an apology or risk legal action.

Jibrin, who said he would not apologise, raised the alarm that the speaker was using security agents to intimidate and harass him.

On Saturday, he took to Twitter to give updates on the development.

Jibrin said apart from Dogara, eight members of the house were included in a petition he sent to anti-graft agencies.

He gave their names as: Herman Hembe, Zakari Mohammed, Chike Okafor, and Dan Asuquo.

Others are Mohammed Bago, Haliru Jika, Jagaba Jagaba, and Babanle Ila.

 Below are some of the tweets:

I am confident that the EFCC and ICPC will effect the arrest of Speaker Dogara and the 11 others to commence prosecution in earnest

— Abdulmumin Jibrin (@AbdulAbmJ) July 30, 2016

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Yesterday we recorded huge success in our mission to get the Corrupt Speaker of the House Yakubu Dogara and his cohorts to face prosecution

— Abdulmumin Jibrin (@AbdulAbmJ) July 30, 2016

The case against them ranges from corrupt enrichment, abuse of office&public trust, living above means, massive movement of funds in budget

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— Abdulmumin Jibrin (@AbdulAbmJ) July 30, 2016

Speaker Dogara has resorted to blame of so called external forces, are those forces responsible for moving FG projects to his farm?

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— Abdulmumin Jibrin (@AbdulAbmJ) July 30, 2016

I also responded to another show of shame by 9 out of the 40member appropriation committee that addressed the press yesterday

— Abdulmumin Jibrin (@AbdulAbmJ) July 30, 2016

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They shamelessly allow themselves to be used after collecting $20,000 dollars each disbursed by DCOS to Speaker Hon CID Maduabum

— Abdulmumin Jibrin (@AbdulAbmJ) July 30, 2016

This is a defining moment in the struggle to cleanse the House,first time a member will drag 12 of his colleagues to the anti graft agencies

— Abdulmumin Jibrin (@AbdulAbmJ) July 30, 2016