Standup9ja: Buhari directs Osinbajo to sign 2017 budget
Acting President Yemi Osinbajo is scheduled to sign the 2017
budget 4pm today.
Meanwhile, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on
Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said in a statement this afternoon that
Buhari had backed Osinbajo to sign the budget.
He stated: "Following the receipt of a full brief on
the 2017 Appropriation Bill as passed by the National Assembly, and to buttress
the unity at the highest level of government, President Muhammadu Buhari has
indicated that it is in the interest of the nation's economy for the Acting
President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, to sign the Appropriation Bill into law.
"In a letter dated June 10, 2017, which he personally
signed and addressed to the Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator
Udoma Udo Udoma, the President also said he was "pleased by the joint
resolution that the Executive would
submit next year's budget proposals by October 2017 and the National Assembly
will conclude the Appropriation process by December 2017, so that the country
can return to a normal fiscal period from next year onwards."
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