The N47.9tn 2025 Budget presentation to the joint session of the National Assembly by President Bola Tinubu, earlier fixed for Tuesday has been shifted to Wednesday.
Our correspondent in the Senate authoritatively gathered information on a day postponement of the budget presentation by the President from top management staff of the National Assembly.
Corroborating this, the Minister of State for Agriculture, Sabi Abdullahi, noted that the President had postponed the budget presentation till Wednesday.
Speaking to the Senate Press Corps journalists on Monday, Abdullahi noted that the executive needed to do a work or two on the budget.
He said, “The budget presentation has been postponed from Tuesday to Wednesday.
“The executive just needs to make one or two adjustments to the budget.”
The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, had, during the announcement at the plenary, announced that Tinubu will present the 2025 budget on Tuesday.
He said, “The president has made his intention known to the National Assembly to present the 2025m budget to the joint Assembly of the National Assembly on the 17th of December, 2024.”
Akpabio announced that the budget presentation will occur at the House of Representatives Chamber.
He further informed the lawmakers that plenary will be at 10:30 am to allow senators to meet in the Red Chamber before moving in procession to the House of Representatives chamber where the budget will be presented.
Tinubu had last month submitted the Medium-Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper for 2025–2027 to both the Senate and the House of Representatives last Tuesday.
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