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$30BN LOAN: Buhari meets Saraki for 3rd time in one week

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$30BN LOAN: Buhari meets Saraki for 3rd time in one week

In what appears a desperate move to have the Senate approve the proposed $29.9 billion loan, President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday met with Senate President Bukola Saraki for the third time in one week.

They duo, who met behind closed door, presumably continued talk to make the Senate President see reason why the lawmakers must approve the President’s foreign $30bn loan request, which the Senate unanimously rejected on November 1.

Following the rejection, President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday November 4, met with the Senate President, they met again on Wednesday and Friday (today). And like in the two previous meeting which journalists were not allowed to cover, this Friday meeting held at the Presidential Villa Abuja, was also private.

Read also: $30BN LOAN: We’ll engage Senate, it will change its decision –Presidency

These meetings are coming just as the Senate not only rejected Buhari’s request for its consent to take $29.9 billion foreign loan, but also, as the lawmakers lay off the Medium Term Expenditure Framework submitted to it for approval, labelling it as “empty.”

After their meeting last Friday, Senate President Saraki disclosed to State House correspondents that foreign loan matter remained work in progress.

He had then cautioned that Nigerians should not see the Senate position on the issue of the loan as a mirror image of the type of relationship between the National Assembly and the executive.
By Ebere Ndukwu …

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