Members of the House of Representatives on Friday passed a vote of confidence in the Speaker, Mr. Aminu Tambuwal.
The development put to rest the speculation that the $3m bribery scandal involving Mr. Farouk Lawan and oil businessman, Mr. Femi Otedola, would be used as a springboard to impeach Tambuwal.
Otedola had accused Lawan, who chaired the ad hoc committee of the House on the fuel subsidy regime, of demanding $3m bribes from him.
Out of the amount, he said he had already paid the first instalment of $620,000 to Lawan and the secretary of the panel, Mr. Boniface Emenalo.
Lawan, who is now a guest of the police, had admitted taking the money, but claimed that he wanted to use it to expose Otedola.
He alleged that Otedola offered the bribe to secure a soft-landing for Zenon Oil and Gas Ltd., a firm which allegedly participated in the fuel subsidy scheme.
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