Senator: President is being dishonest
Reacting in a phone interview, Ibrahim said: “Why did he sign it? If he has so much reservations, he shouldn’t have signed it. He cannot continue to disparage the integrity of the National Assembly.
“We will not agree with our leadership to continue to bend backward for the President. Now he is talking as if it was our doing which is very dishonest of the President. In fact, I’m very disappointed in the President who we so much hold in high esteem. “All the amendments done to the budget were in consonance with the executive. The adjustment was based on benchmark and the details are available.”
On the president’s plans to send supplementary
budget to National Assembly, he said, “ He has to bring it with all honesty by
saying that he wants additional projects but if he puts it on our necks that,
it is our faults, we will not allow our leadership to bend the way they used
to.”
Contacted, the spokesperson of the Senate, Aliyu
Sabi Abdullahi (APC, Niger) said: “My colleague’s response suffices and the
Appropriation Committee Chairmen (Senate and House) will give more detailed
response by Friday Insha Allah”.
Daily Trust
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