"Be clear in your mind that Dankwambo has never committed any fraud and will never be involved in a fraud," the governor said in Gombe while signing the fiscal responsibility law.
The House committee, headed by Faruk Lawal, submitted its report on Wednesday, saying among others that the "accountant general that served during the period 2009 was found to have made payments of equal instalments of N999 million for the record of 128 times within 24 hours totaling N127.872 billion."
Dankwambo said yesterday that it was impossible to make the alleged payments under the electronic payment system he operated as accountant general.
"While I was coming out today, I read in the headlines, they mentioned some few people, including my name that we were in the subsidy report. Let me mention clearly that the Office of Accountant-General of the Federation does not pay subsidy," he said.
"Let me also mention clearly that when I heard the information, I quickly called the office of the Accountant-General and it was found out that the statement that was used was a statement of the PPPRA, that is Petroleum Products Pricing and Regulatory Agency, which the Accountant-General does not control.
"The Accountant-General of the Federation only pays on-line payment from the source either from the Consolidated Revenue Account or the Excess Crude Account which is the source of payment into that account for the account to be monitored and to be paid by the PPPRA," the governor added.
Dankwambo suggested that contents of the report referring to him were political.
"I have done my best to ensure that I demonstrate accountability, transparency in the way I operate. But you should not forget that Dankwambo today is also a politician. So there can be so many factors that will be added to ridicule Gombe State's name.
"But be clear in your mind that Dankwambo has never committed any fraud and will never be involved in a fraud, so Gombe State people should be calm," he said.
He wondered why the House committee never bothered to invite him to explain his own side. As governor, Dankwambo is immune from prosecution, but during the power probe in the House of Representatives in 2008, Cross River State Governor Liyel Imoke was invited to defend his tenure as minister of power years earlier.
The governor said he would issue more detailed reactions when he studied the full report of the House committee.
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Daily Trust