Why Buhari postponed today’s Federal Executive Council meeting

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday postponed the emergency meeting of the Federal Executive Council.

The meeting, which was summoned by the President, was meant to be used as an avenue to extensively discuss the 2016 Budget.

Reports have it that the ministers arrived at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, before being informed of the unexpected postponement.

The ministers were said to be heading to the Council Chambers when members of staff of the Protocol Unit informed them that the meeting had been postponed.

Subsequently, Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, informed journalists that the postponement became necessary to enable them study some of the corrections made on the 2016 Budget proposal during a meeting of the National Economic Council held on Thursday.

Mohammed said the ministers were expected to return for the FEC meeting on Monday, December 21.

“The meeting was not cancelled. It was postponed till Monday afternoon. The reason is that you know there was a meeting of the National Economic Council yesterday (Thursday).

“At that meeting, many of the key cabinet members made presentations. There were some fallouts from those presentations that will necessitate going back to the original document that should have been discussed today.

“So, we were given time between now and Monday to go and rejig our figures because when the NEC met, certain issues were thrown up that if they were not resolved, would distort the entire budget proposal. So we will all go back, each ministry will do its rejigging.”

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