Senior
Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly (Senate), Sen. Ita
Enang, on Friday transmitted the 2017 budget recently passed by the National
Assembly to Acting President Yemi Osinbajo.
The event
was done under closed-door, but Enang confirmed the delivery of the document to
Osinbajo.
The budget
as passed by the National Assembly has just been transmitted to the acting
president. I just delivered it,’’ he told State House correspondents.
Enang used
the opportunity to clarify the issue surrounding the power to sign the budget.
The acting
president has the power to assent to the budget and he will assent to it when
the processes are completed.
In
February, he assented to seven or eight bills. Those that he didn’t agree with,
he wrote the Senate and House of Representatives that he had withheld his
assent from them.
He has the
power of the president to assent to it,’’ he added.
The
president’s aide also said that the assent to the Appropriation Bill would be
after the completion of the standard operation processes.
According
to him, the bill has 30 days within which it will be assented to, but the
process can be completed within two or three days.
So, it is
not possible to say it will be assented to in so, so and so days or in two or
three days.
It is upon
the completion of the process that it will be assented to by the president, and
the president here now is the acting president,’’ he explained.
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