Less than 24 hours before the House of Representatives reconvened in an emergency session on Friday, indications emerged that highly placed Nigerians allegedly reached out to some members with a N1 million cash bribe offer.

Sunday Sun learnt that members who collected the bribe from an agent were given strict instructions to ensure a rowdy session and destabilize the House when it reconvened on Friday. Our source said the money was also meant to ensure that the emergency session did not make any headway in fashioning out any meaningful resolutions.

“They were given instructions to shake Tambuwal and by extension, the House leadership and their loyalists”, he said. It was learnt that the bribe was reportedly coordinated by a former member of the House of Representatives in the Sixth National Assembly. He is from a state in the North-west geo-political zone, same as Speaker Aminu Waziri Tambuwal.

A source privy to the bribe distribution described how the former lawmaker, empowered by his employers, called willing members and chose to meet them in their houses on a one-on-one basis. “He told them where the money came from and handed down the instructions on what was expected of them the next day”, he said.

The money was allegedly distributed on Thursday night. But, in a twist of events, some members who collected the money were said to have called the Speaker immediately they were handed the money to intimate him of the bribe and the identity of the giver.

Sunday Sun learnt that as evidence, some members even took the bribe money to show the Speaker and volunteered to bring same to the floor of the House at Friday’s emergency session. National Assembly sources said an amused Tambuwal counseled that reason should prevail, and stopped any move in that direction.

The bribe, it was learnt, triggered the vote of confidence passed on the Speaker by Hon. Samson Osagie (ACN) from Edo State which was overwhelmingly seconded by the entire House.

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