The National Assembly claimed that projects and votes in the 2018 budget were altered by the legislature to correct an alleged imbalance in the Appropriation Bill presented by President Buhari.
Speaking on behalf of the National Assembly, Senator Aliyu Sabi-Abdullahi, the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs said the projects proposed in the bill were lopsided.
Reading a press statement issued by the National Assembly on the budget alteration topic, Senator Sabi-Abdullahi stated that the reduction of the proposed allocations to the projects and re-allocation to others in the budget was “made in order to address geopolitical imbalances in the budget as proposed by the executive.”
He added that the budget had to be increased “in order to give every geopolitical zone a sense of fairness.” He also reinstated that, “Everything the National Assembly has done is within its powers.”
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