The Presidency has confronted the leadership of the National Assembly, NASS, with details of distortions orchestrated by the lawmakers in the 2016 budget and asked them to urgently address them in the interest of the nation.

The Presidency handed down the plea at a crucial meeting summoned by President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday night with the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo; Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki and the House of Representatives Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, and ministers in attendance.

President used the opportunity of the meeting to review the budget with the leadership of the NASS and highlighted the areas of concern to his administration.

However, the House of Representatives insisted that what it did was in tandem with President Buhari's change agenda.


In particular, the president complained to the leadership of the legislature that the huge sums of money the lawmakers removed from key areas of infrastructure, agricultural and socio-economic development and added to non-essential areas would derail the agenda of his administration.

The president was said to have expressed regret that it amounted to a slap on his change agenda for the money meant for the strategic Calabar-Lagos Coastal Railway project and major agricultural projects to be removed by the lawmakers when the administration was trying to open up the country and provide mass transportation scheme for goods and services.

The meeting was called after ministers had spent the night to rush through the details of the budget which the lawmakers transmitted to the Presidency only last Thursday.

The ministers, it was learned, came to the conclusion that their budget had been significantly distorted and that it would be impossible for them to make the needed change if the budget was accepted the way it was given to them by the NASS.


For that reason, the presidency has asked leadership of the NASS to take back the document and rework it to accommodate the key national projects, which they removed and to eliminate the ones inserted by them to enable the president assent to the budget..... > http://naijasniffer..ae/2016/04/2016-budget-presidency-gives-fresh.html

NASS has always been a major problem to the executive power.
Buhari needed to stop dis trend that's why he needed to kick out saraki by all means but the dude is too stubborn .
I pray God kicks saraki out and return normalcy to the friction between d contending powers


Lalasticlala , I hope u won't ban me today cos our own matter sef b like saraki and buhari