Budget Padding: Saraki reacts, says Tinubu’s statement was filled with untruth, fallacies and misrepresentations

Nigeria’s Senate President, Bukola Saraki on Sunday described as fallacious, a claim by Bola Ahmed Tinubu suggesting that he and the leadership of the National Assembly, hijacked the 2018 budget and by extension stifled progress in Nigeria within the last four years. 

Tinubu had earlier  accused the Senate President, Saraki and the House of Representatives Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, of highjacking the 2018 national budget process.

But, Saraki in a counter reaction argued that the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) should know more about the inner working of the Nation Assembly in that he has been a legislator himself.

In his statement titled, ‘Tinubu Focusing on the Issues of Today: ‘Tomorrow is the Master of Itself’, the APC CHIEFTAIN said “National budgets were delayed and distorted as these actors repeatedly sought to pad budgets with pet projects that would profit them.

“Even worse, they cut funds intended to prosper projects that would have benefitted the average person.

“After four years of their antics halting the progress of government, we should do all we can to prevent a repeat of their malign control of the National Assembly”.

Reacting to Tinubu’s claim, Senator Saraki wrote, “Saraki to Tinubu: Despite Your Smear Campaign and Hatred for Me, You Should, At Least, Dwell on Facts”.