President Buhari: Why I Delayed In Signing The 2016 Budget

President Muhammadu Buhari has uncovered why he had to postpone signing the 2016 Appropriation Bill into law. Talking amid a radio meeting during the weekend in Katsina his home State, Buhari guaranteed Nigerians that his organization will successfully use accessible assets to turn arroundthe fortunes of the nation.
Buhari said, “We will do our best to fix the country. When the Minister of Budget and National Planning, Udoma Udo Udoma, asked me to sign the budget weeks ago and there were issues, I told him I won’t. But when he insisted, I told him if I assented to it and anything happened, he would be held responsible.
“He accepted and left. But when he had a second thought, he ran back to me and agreed with me that we shouldn’t sign it. It was at that point I heard of padding. The committees of the National Assembly removed our projects and replaced it with theirs.

“That’s was why we had three weeks to look at it. When he returned to me again, Udoma told me that most of the projects the National Assembly included had been removed but that we can go with the remaining ones since I must approve money before funds would be released for the execution of projects.”
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