The presentation of the 2025 Appropriation Bill to the National Assembly by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been shifted to Wednesday
Reacting to a question after the Federal Executive Council meeting preceded over by President Bola Tinubu, the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris disclosed that discussions were ongoing and might lead to the postponement of the budget presentation to the National Assembly to Wednesday.
Senate President Godswill Akpabio had, during plenary, last week announced that President Tinubu would present the 2025 budget on Tuesday.
“His Excellency, the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, has indicated his intention to bring the 2025 budget proposals and estimates to a joint sitting of the National Assembly on 17th day of December, 2024.
“That will be at 11:00 a.m., prompt. That will be at the House of Representatives as usual. I am talking about Tuesday next week,” Akpabio had said.
Sources at the National Assembly informed Daily Trust that the presentation was suspended but gave no details about the reason for the postponement.
Our reporter had earlier observed that the usual activities heralding the coming of the President were almost non-existent except for few presence of additional security including some security vehicles from the State House.
A lawmaker, who earlier confided in our reporter that the President would come on Tuesday later said he had received a message that the presentation had been postponed.
He sent a message to our reporter which reads, “UPDATE: President Bola Tinubu’s proposed ₦47.9 trillion 2025 budget presentation to a joint session of the National Assembly has been postponed from Tuesday, December 17, 2024, to Wednesday, December 18, 2024”.
A clerk in one of the committees also confirmed to Daily Trust that a circular had been sent to them to that effect.
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