by Azeez Adeniyi

The Presidency is yet to receive details of the 2017 Appropriation Bill passed by the National Assembly on Thursday.

The Senior Special Assistant to the Acting President on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande has confirmed this.

“The long and short of it is that we (the presidency) have not received it (the Budget details) yet,” he said.

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Akande later announced on his Twitter handle, @akandeoj, that the presidency was still awaiting the details.

“In response to several media inquiries on the 2017 budget, presidency is awaiting the document passed on Thursday by the National Assembly.

“The Buhari administration is keenly awaiting official transmission of the formal 2017 budget document and assured this will happen soon,” he wrote.

The National Assembly had on Thursday passed the bill with estimates totaling N7.441trn.

Azeez