Tag: Budget-padding

Budget padding critics lack arithmetic sense; Ill banish hunger from Nigeria -Tinubu

Aminu Imam

President Bola Tinubu says Nigerians accusing the Senate of malicious embellishments of the 2024 budget did not understand the arithmetic and did not refer to the baseline of what I brought. Tinubu said this when he hosted the Senate leadership to a dinner to break the Ramadan fast at the State House on Thursday, in Abuja. He said his government would continue to support the military in neutralising security threats nationwide. Our armed forces are working hard, and we will not allow attackers to undermine the integrity and value of…

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Alleged N3.7tr Budget-Padding: Northern Govs., other stakeholders urge Tinubu to remove Akpabio

Aminu Imam

Northern governors and some other stakeholders are pressurising President Bola Tinubu to ensure the removal of Senate President Godswill Akpabio or face dire political consequences. It was gathered that the suspension of Ningi was heating the political scene, which had started to get to President Tinubu. According to some top sources in the National Assembly, the heat generated by the budget padding controversy had gone beyond what was anticipated by Senate President Akpabio. Recall that Senator Ningi, representing Bauchi-Central senatorial district, on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), recently…

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Budget-padding controversy: ACF knocks Senate for suspending Ningi

Aminu Imam

Pan-northern socio-political organisation, Arewa Consultative Forum, (ACF), yesterday, condemned the suspension of Senator Abdul Ningi over the alleged padding of the 2024 Budget to the tune of N3.7tn by the Senate. Ningi had, in an earlier interview, made the allegation that culminated in his three-month suspension for what the 10th Senate labelled an unfounded allegation. However, the pan-northern organisation noted with regret that rather than suspending the Senator representing Bauchi North, the red chamber should have allowed an independent investigation into the matter. The ACF, through its National Publicity Secretary,…

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Alleged Budget-padding: Step down immediately, PDP tells Akpabio

Aminu Imam

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked Senate President Godswill Akpabio to immediately step aside and allow for an independent investigation into the allegation that the 2024 appropriation act was padded by N3 trillion. Recall that at the weekend, Senator representing Bauchi-central, Abdul Ningi, stirred controversy when he alleged that the 2024 Budget was padded by N3 trillion, and that the country is operating two Budgets concurrently. On Tuesday, the allegation was debated at the committee of the whole of the red chamber, amid a rowdy session. Subsequently, the senator…

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Alleged Budget-padding: CISLAC tackles Senate over Ningis suspension

Aminu Imam

The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre, (CISLAC)/Transparency International in Nigeria (TI-Nigeria), yesterday, condemned the Senates resolution to suspend Senator Abdul Ningi over the allegation on the N3 trillion alleged budget padding in the 2024 Appropriation Act. The CISLAC Executive Director, Comrade Auwal Ibrahim Musa Rafsanjani, who expressed the concern via a statement titled: Senator Ningi: CISLAC expresses worries over attacks on freedom of expression, oppositions rights and independence, warned against abuse of the rule of law. He said: The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC)/Transparency International in Nigeria (TI-Nigeria) is…

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