•SAYS ‘LOOK AT MIRROR, IT’S YOUR FACE THAT’S IN IT’

By Leon Usigbe -Abuja


The Presidency on Sunday heaped the blame for the delay in passing the budget of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Senate President Bukola Saraki who it said led the National Assembly to delay the passage of the 2018 budget.

In a response to Saraki’s argument that the executive ought to have submitted the INEC budget earlier rather than waiting until the lawmakers were going on their statutory break, the presidency asked the Senate President to look into the mirror and what he will see will be his own face.

A statement issued by Senior Special Assistant to the president on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu in Abuja said: “On the contrary, the Senate President should look into the mirror and what he will see is his own face. He is solely to be held responsible for deliberately driving the nation to this cliff edge as far as the preparations for next elections are concerned.

“It is not true that INEC submitted their draft budget to the Presidency in February. No, it came much later but even then, this is not the real issue.

“The fact that their proposals came well after the President had laid his budget for the year 2018 before the National Assembly meant that their own will be sent as supplementary budget. This was clearly stated to them by the Minister of Budget and National Planning.

“A supplementary budget cannot be submitted until the main budget is passed, and so the delay in passing the main budget was the reason for the delay. The National Assembly passed the 2018 budget seven months after the document was submitted to the National Assembly by President Buhari.

“Unless someone has forgotten, the budget was submitted to the National Assembly and it took the Saraki-led National Assembly seven months to release it. There is no way President Buhari could have submitted a supplementary budget while the main one was still pending. It is never done. Because Saraki did not return the main budget, we could not have submitted the supplementary one.

“After the long delays, the President was pained to sign the much distorted, butchered and debauched document. In giving his assent, President Buhari said that he was compelled to sign the budget so as not to keep the economy continuously on a standstill.

“In his words: ‘When I submitted the 2018 Budget proposals to the National Assembly on 7th November 2017, I had hoped that the usual legislative review process would be quick, so as to move Nigeria towards a predictable January-December financial year.’

“It is also worthy of note that this is the first time in Nigeria’s history that a government would bring together the cost of an election in one budget, with each agency involved invited to defend their portion of the budget before the National Assembly.

“It is all part of the transparency that this government is known for. In the past, governments would approve INEC budgets and funding without a breakdown, often using ways and means to fund it Not so under President Buhari.”

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And it's a good bye to the sense of leadership we've enjoyed since two weeks. Oga don land, Nigeria is back to factory settings of 2015. Blame game mood activating and will complete 100 tomorrow. lol politicians eeeh.

Mtchww

Naija and dirty politics.

Check my signature for phone deals

Na parable things now abi? Una never see anything

Buhari is useless to human.


Is it also Saraki that delayed the appointment of noise makers?.

Presidency of lies.

I love how SARAKI is making th3 presidency angry. I love the way SaraKi make them feel...

The pain of Buhari and his zombie gives me joy...

Buhari is back.... Blame game resumes.



A won oloshi

Der is God politicians


They just keep playing us around like we are fool

M

If Garba Shehu and Femi Adesina will just rememeber there was Doyin and Reno and Reuben..

Doyin bowed to beg Obj, Reno is still scared of entering his country, Reuben has lost all reputation and these folks were not half as useless.


There's nemesis and there's history, time shall tell.

Oops, its not even two days dat baba landed..d blame game is on already

Saraki is the devil... Nuff said!

So Saraki being the senate president na him dey prepare bills?
For the Zombies...
Na INEC go prepare the needed bills ,send a copy to the Executive (Buhari and fellow fools) after the Executives don sign am,dem go forward it to the house (Saraki and Dogara people dem).
How Saraki take be the one to decide when the bill should be send from the executive?...
They want a rush hour in the issue so there won't be enough time to check the excess of the bill.
This already give us a clue that this money for election na for presidency to buy votes.
That being said....
Se the position of the Vice President in this picture.

Na Buhari he wan see for mirror before?

The renowed Blamocrat is back.

Na Saraki stop you from building a hospital to take care of your ailment in Nigeria after 4 years abi?

Change dole!

blame game activated



we have enjoy peace for some time now

Munzy14:
And it's a good bye to the sense of leadership we've enjoyed since two weeks. Oga don land, Nigeria is back to factory settings of 2015. Blame game mood activating and will complete 100 tomorrow. lol politicians eeeh.

I am tired of this Buhari's regime. APC's dog will soon. run here and believe this shit.

Selfish interest everywhere and clash of interest everywhere

I watched Sunday Politics on Channels TV this evening and I'm glad Robert Clark SAN and the ADP rep understand the mumu game the Presidency is playing with this INEC budget.

Its either Bubu wants this as an excuse in case he fails or he wants to arm twist the Assembly into giving him free pass to free money to monetize his reelection

Saraki is a curse to Nigerians

once these jihadists want something, they go all out.

Saraki must resist them

Why Saraki dey fear to reconvene senate nau

We started talking about 2019 Elections last year, yet Buhari and his clueless team could not prioritize the Election in 2018 budget. You passed the budget and now remembered Election money in July.

You want Nigerians to blame NASS for your cluelessness....only your zombies will fall for that conspiracy

..... TWEETER BRUCE LEEE ! Oyaoo start Tweeting

Buhari have returned hence senseless governance have returned again.Useless government!

which presidency?

Saraki is a useless desperate politician.

I don’t celebrate cunning leaders

All this blame game is just to please their paymaster and nothing more.

Just to repackage the none performing president.

We all know

The passage of the annual budget was delayed because the ministers and accounting officers of ministries, departments and agencies refused to go to the various committees of the national assembly to defend their budgets in accordance with section 59 (2) of the 1999 constitution (as amended).

It should be noted that it was the president of the nation that issued a statement that all MDAs should go and defend their budgets before action was taken by the national assembly. The blame game is not necessary, the two arms should put things in order to move the nation forward.