Chairman of the Northern Senators Discussion board, NSF, Senator Abdul Ningi (PDP-Bauchi Central) has insisted that initiatives price N3.7 trillion within the 2024 Appropriation Act can’t be traced.
reporter recollects that the BBC Hausa had, on Saturday, quoted Senator Ningi alleging that the Federal Authorities was working an N28 trillion price range, opposite to the N25 trillion handed by the Nationwide Meeting.
Nevertheless, the Presidency, in an announcement issued on Sunday by the Particular Adviser to the President on Info and Technique, Mr. Bayo Onanuga denied the allegation.
Talking at a press convention on Monday, the lawmaker maintained his stand, insisting that the findings made by the Northern Senators Discussion board had been correct.
Ningi, nevertheless, stated that the views he expressed throughout his interview had been his personal, and never these of the Northern Senators Discussion board.
The lawmaker additionally denied saying that President Bola Tinubu was working two separate 2024 budgets.
