Buhari directs Osinbajo to sign 2017 Budget
President Muhammadu Buhari has directed Acting President Yemi Osinbajo to sign the 2017 appropriation bill into law. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Garba Shehu, disclosed this development in Abuja.
In a statement made available on Monday Shehu quoted Buhari as saying that it was in the interest of the country that his deputy sign the budget.
The statement reads in part, “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 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’.”
