Health Minister Mrs Adenike Grange yesterday resigned her appointment.
Also forced to resign is Minister of State Mr Gabriel Adukwu.
They quit over the N300 million budget leftover which an investigation said was tampered with.
But Grange insisted on her innocence, saying she did no wrong.
Reports say top government officials in the ministry shared the over N300 million unspent budget.
A civil servant in the ministry, who was unhappy with his share of the money, allegedly reported the matter to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
The commission, in its final report which was submitted to the Presidency last week, indicted some top officials of the ministry as the brains behind the award of fake contracts worth over N106 million and the sharing of the balance.
The EFCC report indicted the Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Prof. Simon Ogamdi, for allegedly collecting N5 million as his share of the unspent budget, thereby flouting President Umaru Yar’Adua’s directive that the money should be returned to the treasury.
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