Nigeria: 'Missing' 2016 Budget Documents - Senators to Begin Debate Without Budget Copies
President Muhammadu Buhari (PMB) is no doubt one Nigerian leader who seems to be enjoying so much attention on social media especially on micro-social blog site Twitter.
With some 516,000 followers and 1,672 tweets, President Buhari in a very short time between his campaign period and his inauguration as Nigeria's head of state on 29th May 2015 has become an instant Twitter celeb.
But it is not really the President's personality that has earned him this 'Twitter popularity' but happenings which are connected to the president over the last seven months since he was sworn. He has made so many Twitter users to create different #hash tags which are used to banter over some of the President's actions.
Prior to the 2015 general elections, some Nigerians in their fanatical support for the then aspiring president created a #March4Buhari to express their continued support for the him. He was the APC presidential flag bearer when presidential elections were postponed. The president's supporters simply 'converged' on Twitter to express solidarity for the retired general.
Welcome 2 march"wat u gonna say Brother #march4Buhari!!!
- #ViVaUMAR (@umar7r) May 1, 2015
#Change is here. God bless Nigeria.We started with #FEBUHARI. We were forced to #MARCH4BUHARI and today i say #MAYBUHARISUCCEED inshaaAllah
- Madami (@MadamiYusuf) May 29, 2015
My favourite has tag in 2015 is #March4Buhari that brought a revolutionary fight against corruption in Nigeria @AJStream
- Abubakar Aliyu (@AliyuSadeeq) December 30, 2015
@MrFixNigeria same people who sees nothing wrong with #GEJ with his tyrannical gang to continuee!after we #March4Buhari we r ready for them
- Mohammed Abdulrazaq (@mohrazz) January 3, 2016
When PMB was inaugurated, Nigerians like never before literarily held their breaths for the announcement of PMB's cabinet members. Speculations were rife at that period as to who would or would not make the president's ministerial list. Twitter users went further to create #MinisterialList to predict likely nominees for the president's cabinet.
First and second lists are out....... There is yet to be supplementary list..... #ministerial list
- IG: tdynamic19 (@dynamicsblogs) October 13, 2015
#Nigeria: 18 people have been confirmed so far out of president #Buhari's #ministerial nominees list presented to the senate.
- IG: @saymamab (@saymamaa) October 14, 2015
One might argue that the #Ministerial list wasn't worth d wait, but the #MinisterialScreening certainly makes up for that
- Prince of Africa (@goldmarklink) October 15, 2015
Photos: #Buhari receives confirmed #ministerial list from #Saraki: Senate President Bukola Saraki today prese... https://t.co/OHWxR0SnzD
- Jatma jacobi (@JacobiJatma) November 3, 2015
PMB true to his word met the October deadline he gave for the release of the first set of ministerial nominees, and this put to rest the speculative #MinisterialList, only for the #TheList to trend, where everyone then got talking about who is who on the list and their likely portfolios.
The 2016 budget was another incident that set twitter agog with respect to PMB. After a breakdown of the proposal, some Nigerians who disapproved of how the money was appropriated took to twitter once again to create the #BudgetofYams. They felt monies were appropriated to what was not really necessary.
FlashBack: N3,630,000,000 on the purchase of BMW Saloon Cars for the presidency. #BudgetOfYams
- Adeyanju Deji (@adeyanjudeji) January 3, 2016
From dis budget saga 1can infer dat d president realized it was indeed #budgetofyams n witdrew it.Does it mean d buhari is bein deceived?
- @gentleojay (@gentleojay) January 4, 2016
#Dasukigate isn't responsible for the #BudgetOfYams. N326m was budgeted for Aso Villa zoo. N765m for recreational facilities. Odi egwu
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