President Muhammadu Buhari has asked Acting President Yemi Osinbajo to sign the 2017 Appropriation Bill recently passed by the National Assembly.
Prompt News Online recalls that there has been uncertainty over whether the ‘cabal’ will allow Osinbajo to sign the budget.
But, Mr Buhari in a statement on Monday by Senior Special Assistant on Media & Publicity, Garba Shehu, said the Acting President should go ahead to sign the Appropriation Bill in the interest of the nation.
The statement reads:
“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.”
