Acting
President Yemi Osinbajo has received the details of the 2017 appropriation bill
recently passed by the National Assembly. The National Assembly passed a
N7.441 trillion budget last week.
The document was handed over to
Mr. Osinbajo by the presidential aide in charge of Senate, Ita Enang.
The handover was done behind
closed doors.
Mr. Osinbajo had said on Wednesday
that he would sign the budget when is satisfied with its contents.
Speaking after submitting the
budget, Mr. Enang said:
“The budget as passed by the
National Assembly has just been transmitted to the Acting President. I just
delivered it.
“Let me use this opportunity to
clarify an issue. The Acting President has the power to assent to the budget
and he will assent to it when the processes are completed.
“The
Acting President has the power to assent to the budget. In February, he
assented to seven or eight bills. Those that he didn’t agree with, he wrote the
Senate and House of Representatives that he had withheld his assent from them.
“He has the power of the president
to assent to it. But the assent to the Appropriation Bill will be after the
completion of the standard operation process. The bill has 30 days within which
it will be assented to but the process can be completed within two or three
days.
“So, it is not possible to say it
will be assented to in so, so and so day or in two or three days. It’s upon the
completipn of the process that it will be assented to by the president and the
president here now is the acting president.”
Source: Premium Times
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