Politics Buhari's 2018 Budget is Dead on Arrival- Sen Abaribe

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On Tuesday during plenary, Senator Eyinnaya Abaribe (PDP, Abia South) said the 2018 budget was “fictitious” and “dead on arrival”, throwing the Red Chamber into turmoil.

“What we debate usually is the general principles. What are we debating about a document that is totally fictitious?” he queried.

Countering him, Senator Ahmed Lawan (APC, Yobe North), said it is "out of order to use offensive and inventive language. Mr President, to call a document that the president of the federal republic of Nigeria presented to the National Assembly fictitious is improper and unparliamentary.”

Abaribe plowed on.

“Mr. President, quoting the Senate leader in his speech,” he said, “the 2018 budget is designed to consolidate on the achievements of the 2016 and the 2017 budgets.

“What was done in 2017 when less than 15% of that budget was released?
Nothing was done. That is why I call it fictitious. I’m very sorry if that is the word he is bothered about. I withdraw the word fictitious and say that this is totally imaginary.

“Because nothing was done in 2017. That is a fact that we all know,” he said.
 

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