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TINUBU PAYS CONDOLENCE VISIT TO MINISTER OF STATE FCT

Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu pays condolence visit to Hajia Ramatu, Minister of State FCT over the death of her mother last night.

Indispensable85:
Akpabio will fill up this stadium for Tinubu. Just watch!

Okwyjesus:
Inorganic rented crowd.

Time will tell if they will leave their in law and daughter to vote Atiku

Subsidy Removal: Senators Disagree with Buhari, Insist on December 2023 as Deadline

Say stopping policy in June will create crisis for new govt 

Senators across political party lines have said the National Assembly would not pass the proposal on petrol subsidy removal as presented by President Muhammadu Buhari in order not to create crisis for the new administration that would succeed him next year.Buhari had in the 2023 – 2025 Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper (MTEF/FSP), proposed N3.6 trillion in the 2023 Budget for fuel subsidy, which was from January to June.

The Joint Senate Committee on Finance and Economic Planning which worked on the document had while submitting it’s report last week at plenary, slashed the N3.6 trillion subsidy provision to N1.7 trillion in order to reduce the fiscal deficit of N11.3 trillion contained in  the MTEF/FSP.The proposal of the Senate panel on  subsidy was however rejected at plenary but the House of Representatives okayed its Committee’s recommendation which was N1.7 trillion.Buhari, in the 2023 fiscal document he presented before the joint sitting of the two chambers of the National Assembly last Friday, had proposed that the subsidy regime would terminate with his administration on May 29, 2023.


However, some senators who spoke with journalists on the issue vowed to extend the terminal date for the subsidy removal to the end of 2023.They argued that stopping the subsidy regime at the time a new administration would be taking over power, would create a lot of crisis.The senators pledged to rework the fiscal document to make sure that the terminal date for the discontinuation of subsidy payment was shifted to December 2023.

A Principal Officer of the upper chamber representing Enugu North Senatorial District, Senator Chukwuka Utazi, said his colleagues would not allow the subsidy regime to end midway next year.He said, “The executive had proposed that the oil subsidy would end at the end of May next year.“For us in the Senate, while passing the MTEF/FSP, we handled the issue and in our own wisdom and said it was not feasible.“We argued that it is better to make it one year. We have said it will end in December next year.

This is because we don’t want it to create a problem for the government that would succeed President Buhari.“We don’t want Nigerians to start attacking the new government from day one."

It is therefore better to sustain it till December next year. The budget is now in the National Assembly, we have the powers and we have taken that decision in the MTEF/ FSP. “Utazi noted that the effective implementation of the 2023 appropriation bill would be determined by the way the government would tackle oil theft in the Niger Delta.

Similarly, the Chairman, Senate Committee on Appropriation, Senator Barau Jibrin, said  Buhari had proposed that the subsidy regime would end in June, but that the Senate would revisit the issue.He said, the president submitted two scenarios. The first was to provide money to make it end June next year.“The second scenario is for it to end in December but there won’t be any money to fund capital projects. By what was submitted on Friday, it is intended that it would end in June next year.

“As a parliament, we have the power of appropriation.”Jibrin commended the Buhari’s government for improving on the nation’s infrastructure development.He said, “I was once Chairman, House Committee on Appropriation. Even when I left office, I was following what was happening in the appropriation process.“This is the first government since 1999 that has invested so much in infrastructure.

“The government has done very well. It has performed in a manner that deserves commendation.“There must be an enabling environment in place if a country wants to achieve economic growth and buoyancy. Infrastructure development is very important in the life of an administration. It is one of the fundamentals needed to achieve growth.

Also, the Chairman, Senate Committee on Women Affairs, Senator Betty Apiafi, assured Nigerians that the nation’s parliament would do the needful on the subsidy issue.Apiafi said, “Revenue is dropping because almost 80 percent of our revenue is being stolen. From the MTEF/FSP record we are losing one million barrels of crude oil per day.

“Two scenarios had been presented. First, if we provide 100 per cent subsidy for petrol next year, there won’t be any capital project. But if we do subsidy for six months,  then there will be money for capital project.


“Nobody does projects in one part within a year. Nigerians voted for us to protect the nation and make it prosper but what are we doing by allowing our revenue to be stolen?”

N3TRAL:
Op, if you paid for banners, posters, and billboards but a Governor empowered unknown gunmen to destroy your banners and billboards will you be happy?


If a dictator denied your party from using a public facility built with public funds after application will you be happy?


It has been established that Pandora Obeer destroyed Labour Party's billboards and unleashed mayhem against the party in Anambra claiming it was a Yoruba party.

That was what caused the fight?

The hypocrite who has mastered the craft of virtue signalling wants to pretend like he wasn't the cause of the conflict that took lives in Anambra State.

9jahotblog:
Of course your tweet has been saved, Tinubu the clueless loser and drug baron will be disgrace in the poll. No one will ever votes for APC Muslim-Muslim ticket in the presidential election. Tinubu tun ma lule piii Lekan siii niiii. Save my post either. Atiku Abubakar of Pdp has my votes. Atiku is the best presidential candidate so far.

Bashir El-Rufai, the son of the Executive Governor of Kaduna State,Nasir Ahmad el-Rufai , has vowed not to tweet in his life again if Tinubu does not win the 2023 Presidential Election

His tweet reads:

"President-Elect Tinubu
@officialABAT
has won the 2023 Presidential Elections. Nigeria in the bag. If my omen turns out false I will never tweet in my life again.

Save the tweet."

PointZerom:
This pathetic deceiver is the worst of them all.
A drug lord and thief. Who cannot show the tax payers what he did with 50bil monthly IGR.

Thifnubu has done more harm to opposition parties and those who challenged him including the assassination of Funsho Williams.

M4A1carbine:
Qualitative education, even served free, is a luxury your brain can never assimilate.

So you think "THIS" is improper in that sentence construct??

You miscreants are the most shallow set of political support base...a politician can assemble.

Being stewpid is your right ..but disturbing the platform with it..is a crime.

Your foolishness is toxic...and that is why Thiefnubuu employs you.

M4A1carbine:
Which University do these guys. who support Thiefnubuu attend?

Tinubuagbado:
You're just confirmed you're a PAID TOUT and an Urchin.

Continue with your delusional thrash.

M4A1carbine:
All this and you are unsettled, by online noise

You dimwits dont even know the kind of resentment that is staring you, fvvctards in the face.

Bullying...??...as you insult everybody, but cant take same?

Its just time...then you will understand objectively, as a Bittches Bittch...spits on the "Black spot, on your agbado forehead..

M4A1carbine:
You almost killed a FLAG HOLDER FOR LABOUR PARTY

You unleash delinquent and docile zombies to insult Peter Obi...


Your uselesss thugs are everywhere causing mayhem

Your elected officials openly say that Obi supporters should relocate, because their rally was intimidating. In the Nigeria, you want thiefnubuu to rule? Una dey MADT!


BUT.....

You want to call Peter Obi supporters the aggressors?? YOU ARE MADT. Even the North that have extremists is not as useless and intolerant as you yapping cowards.

Now you call them IPOB, because you are frustrated??...You must suffer.

The election is between Peter OBI and Atiku Abubakar. You are just as useless as thiefnubuus pampers.

Zombie...NIGGAZ are taking stock...and soon you will understand your level.