5 min read For 13 years (1999-2012), Farouk Lawan was the poster boy of the House of Representatives. At the height of his influence, Mr Lawan served as the chairman of an ad hoc committee that investigated fuel subsidy scam. It turned out to be his waterloo. “We were told that we were not going to live long [enough] to even finish the exercise. They were death threats, very clearly death threats. Fortunately, we are still around,” Mr Lawan said to the BBC during the probe. Unknown to Nigerians then, the self-acclaimed ‘Mr Integrity’ was using the free publicity to neg...