Hon Farouk Lawan has said that he is not on the run
contrary to insinuations in some quarters, insisting that there is no reason
for him to be on the run because he is not afraid of anything.
The former chairman of the
adhoc committee of the House of Representatives on fuel subsidy is currently in
Mecca on hajj where he spoke yesterday.
Lawan said he was
purely in the holy land to perform his religious obligation and not because he
had to run from Nigeria.
He promised to
return home as soon as the hajj rites were over, insisting that he was innocent
of the bribery allegations levelled against him by oil baron, Femi Otedola.
The lawmaker said
the reports that he always wept whenever he faced police interrogators on
matters relating to the alleged bribe were a calculated attempt to portray him
as guilty.
Lawan also said the
claim that members of his dissolved committee had disowned him on the bribery
charge was misleading.
He stated he was
prepared to do anything to clear himself on the alleged bribe.
