‘President Buhari Submitted An Empty Box During Budget Presentation’ Adeyanju Deji
Adeyanju Deji, the head Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) new media has alleged that President Muhammadu Buhari submitted an empty box during the budget presentation last year.
Some Nigerian senators told Premium Times, yesterday, January 12, that they are suspicious the presidency is behind the sudden disappearance of the 2016 budget submitted to the National Assembly.
According to the lawmakers, the intelligence they had so far gathered suggested that the presidency discreetly withdrew the documents to enable it to make some adjustments to it.
Speaking on the issue, the minister of state for national planning, Zainab Ahmed, expressed shock at reports of missing budget.
She revealed that more than 400 copies of the document were delivered to the National Assembly on Monday, January 11 by the printer, for distribution to all members.
“After the official presentation of the budget by the President on December 22, 2015, both hard and soft copies were given to some key members of the Assembly. How can anyone say all the copies are missing?” she said in an interview with PREMIUM TIMES.
“Immediately after the presentation (by Buhari), most of the members went on break. But a printer was given the job to produce the document for distribution to all members on resumption.
“On Monday, the printer delivered more than 400 copies to the National Assembly for distribution to members and their aides. Another 100 copies were delivered this afternoon (Tuesday). Therefore, the same budget cannot be said to be missing,” she said.
Meanwhile, a tweet on Tuesday, January 12, 2016, by a PDP stalwart noted that the president did not submit documents as people were made to believe during the presentation.
The politician has since been lashed at by Nigerians who stated that he is a liar as they have refused to believe all that he wrote in the tweet.
Read his tweets and Nigerian response via this tweet link; https://twitter.com/adeyanjudeji/status/686984192010354688?ref_src=twsrc^tfw
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