2017 BUDGET: Buhari speaks, gives Osinbajo go ahead to sign

After about 35 days away from home on a medical trip, and a long spell of silence, President Muhammadu Buhari has spoken out on the controversy over who should sign the 2017 Appropriation Bill.
The president is said to have given the vice president, Yemi Osinbajo the go-ahead to sign the Bill into law, after all matters are concluded on it.

Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu in a statement on Monday, said that the president communicated the directive to the presidency in a letter.
According to Shehu, “Following the receipt of a full brief on the 2017 Appropriation Bill as passed by the National Assembly, and to buttress the unity at the highest level of government, President Muhammadu Buhari has indicated that it is in the interest of the nation’s economy for the Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, to sign the Appropriation Bill into law.

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“In a letter dated June 10, 2017, which he personally signed and addressed to the Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma, the President also said he was “pleased by the joint resolution that the Executive would submit next year’s budget proposals by October 2017 and the National Assembly will conclude the Appropriation process by December 2017, so that the country can return to a normal fiscal period from next year onwards.”

The Presidency had been embroiled in debates, following the passage of the 2017 budget by the national Assembly, over who between the president and his vice would sign the document into law.

 

 

 

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