By Ishaya Ibrahim
A former senator who represented Kaduna Central in the National Assembly, Comrade Shehu Sani, has suggested why Senator Agom Jarigbe abandoned a live interview when the questions started moving towards the 2024 budget.
During a live interview on Arise TV, Senator Jarigbe who represents Cross River North, abandoned a live television interview after one of the hosts of the programme questioned him about the 2024 budget.
The interview, done via zoom, saw the senator mumbling in lamentation that he wanted to represent the people of Cross River State quietly and wouldn’t want to be dragged into budget conversation.
Sani, while weighing into the development, said Senator Jarigbe abandoned the interview to avoid a problem with the Senate.
Hear him: “Senator Jarigbe ‘escaped’ from the Arise live TV interview not to get into trouble in the Senate. Actually, that’s why many Lawmakers are running away from the media and the Social Media.When a Senator is suspended,no Kobo go enter him account.”
Recall that when the Senator was asked about the 2024 budget, he deflected the question by responding that he had not studied the budget line by line. He told his interviewers that he would prefer to talk about his thanksgiving and not budget.
One of the hosts of the programme, Steve Ayorinde, reminded the senator that he had already spoken about his thanksgiving. At this point, the zoom signal from the Senator’s end went dead.
On X, Adesuwa, who took the senator up on the budget, said Senator Jarigbe walked out of the interview and never returned.
She said: “Senator Jarigbe says he did not scrutinize the budget, walks out of ARISE News Interview He’s caught on hot mic saying we want to put him ‘in wahala’ I wonder who with?”
Jarigbe was the senator who blew the whistle on the floor of the Senate during the debate over the suspension of Senator Abdu Ningi for alleging budget padding by the Senate.
Jarigbe had claimed that about N500 million was given to each ranking Senator without him benefiting from the largesse. He later backtracked from his own words by claiming that the N500 million was for projects in the constituency of some of the Senators.
