Nigeria’s ruling party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has barred Abdulmumin Jibrin from issuing any public statement regarding allegations of budget padding against the leadership of Nigeria’s House of Reps.

Jibrin is the sacked chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation. He is also a member of the APC.

In a statement issued on Thursday, the Party revealed it was not happy with the recent developments in the House of Representatives on padding the 2016 budget.

“As you are aware, the party, and indeed the government, has not been happy over the recent development in the house of representatives over the issue of the 2016 budget. We found it embarrassing to have to deal with another new phenomenon you tagged ‘budget padding,’” the Party said through its Deputy National Chairman North, Senator Lawal Shuaibu.

“Arising from the series of meetings we held with you over the subject matter, the national working committee had decided to request you to henceforth avoid issuing any public statement on this matter.”

“This includes statements through social media or other means of transmitting an opinion on the matter to the public, as the party is now looking into it towards finding possible solution.”

Since July 21, when he made his first allegation of budget-padding against the speaker, Yakubu Dogara and three other leaders of the house, Jibrin has publicly made a series of other corruption allegations against the quartet.

He had claimed that a group led by Dogara had made insertions of about N250bn into the 2016 budget.

On Monday, he went to the offices of four anti-graft agencies in Abuja to formally submit a petition against Dogara and others.

The next day, he was summoned by the national executive of the All Progressives Congress.

Shuaibu in the letter thanked Rep. Jibrin for “honouring our intervention and readiness to afford the party the chance to handle the budget padding crisis.

“The party is now looking into it towards finding a possible solution”, he said.

Last month, Speaker of Nigeria’s House of Reps removed Jibrin from his position as Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations and replaced him with Hon. Mustapha Bala Dawaki.

However, Jibrin insisted he was not sacked but resigned from his position.

He accused the Speaker of the house, Yakubu Dogara of attempting to pad the budget; an allegation Dogara has denied.

Jibrin said his removal from his former position was because he refused to allow the Speaker have his way.

He went further to accuse other members of the house leadership of corruption.

Jibrin has stated he will continue to reveal cases of corruption carried out by Dogara until he is removed from office.