President Muhammadu Buhari bared his mind on his relationship with the Senate President, Bukola Saraki and the Speaker, House of Representatives, Hon Yakubu Dogara.
He vented his anger on the duo for their actions on the enactment of the 2019 Appropriation Act.
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Buhari, while speaking, on Monday night, during a videotaped interview broadcast on Nigerian Television Authority, NTA, said he had conveyed his reservation directly to the legislative leaders while assenting the bill on Monday morning.
When asked to comment on the delayed budget passage, president Buhari said,
“I think culture was developed in the National Assembly that they should dictate the terms, which was wrong. It is the executive that dictates the terms and takes it before the legislature. It (the legislature) will examine it and agree or disagree with it.
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“But when they go around posing that they are the government and not the executive, then that’s the problem. I felt and I spoke personally to the Senate President, Saraki, and the leader of the House, Dogara. They could not deny it.
“I asked them how they felt to hold the country at ransom for seven months without passing a budget. Unfortunately, they were not hurting me; they were hurting the country. So, really, in terms of patriotism, I think I rated them very low indeed.”
The President noted that constitutionally, he could not help that there were things that had to go through the legislature.
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“But to hold a budget for seven months cannot be justified if you really bother about the country,” he added.
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