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Delay In 2018 Budget: Buhari Summons Saraki, Dogara To Aso Rock

President Muhammadu Buhari had a closed door meeting with the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara today, Monday at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa over the delay in the passage of the 2018 budget.

The President presented the budget to the joint session of the Natonal Assembly sometime in November 2018, but as at today, May 7th, the budget is still lying in the National Assembly.

Saraki, who spoke to newsmen as he emerged from the meeting, along with speaker Dogara confirmed that they were in the Villa “on the invitation of Mr. President. He wanted to brief us on his trip to the United States and also the issue of the budget. We also talked on the issue of concerns to us, the invasion of the National Assembly, which he showed great concern and said action will be taken to investigate that.”

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Saraki said that the budget would hopefully be laid this week and passed early next week.

On the seeming sour relationship between the executive and the legislature, the Senate President said that the fact that the President had called them to brief them on his trip to America is a good sign that the relation is smooth.

“We are the National Assembly have always been ready to give all our support to the executive and we will continue to work along those lines. As I said, the presidential system that we operate, we sometimes have the responsibility to check the excesses of the executive, so there will always be times we will disagree but by and large, we will always work for the interest of Nigerians and always keep on moving on.” [myad]