Governor of Ekiti state, Ayo Fayose says Nigeria as a country may soon be ‘forged’, in response to the inconsistent 2016 budget of the Federal Government.
Reacting to the Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole’s disclosure that his ministry’s budget was doctored- Fayose on Tuesday, urged President Muhamamdu Buhari to formally withdraw the budget he submitted to the National Assembly and re-submit it.
Speaking through his Special Assistant on Pubic Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, the governor said: “The President should admit that there were avoidable errors in the budget and since he is human and not immune to errors, he should simply do the needful by presenting a new and credible budget to the National Assembly.”
“Last week, we were told that the Senate discovered a sum of N10 billion questionably smuggled into the budget of the Ministry of Education for an allegedly questionable sub-head.”
“Also, we were told of the existence of a budget mafia in the Presidency that was said to be responsible for the embarrassing allocations in the budget. Before now, we were told that a total of N3.87 billion was allocated for capital projects at the State House Clinic alone, over N700million more than capital allocation to all the 16 federal teaching hospitals combined.”
“Now, a whole minister has come out to say that budgetary provision for his ministry was forged! If under a President that says he is fighting corruption, the budget of the country got missing and we are now being told that the budget being considered by the National Assembly has been forged, one cannot but be afraid that there is possibility of Nigeria being forged one day, after the original must have gone missing.”
