Budget 2016: "Buhari Right To Withold Assent" - Hon. Ngamdu

A member of the House of Representatives Hon. Sanda Mohammed Ngamdu has backed the decision of President Muhammadu Buhari not to assent to the 2016 budget. President Muhammadu Buhari had through his media aid  Mr. Femi Adeshina, said that the President will not assent to the 2016 Budget as passed by the National Assembly until he has critically studied it.

His decisiion not to assent to the 2016 budget has received knocks especially from the social media but Hon. Ngamdu has come out to defend his decision. stressing that it will be wrong for the President to assent to the budget without going through it considering the sabotage that enveloped the budget proposal he presented. Hon. Ngamdu said considering the mutual distrust between both arms of government, it will be inappropriate for the President not to carefully go through a sensitive item like the budget before signing it into law. He said Nigerians should not politicise the issue because even the former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan did not assent to budgets passed by the National Assembly due to disagreements with items inserted by the parliament then.

While stressing that Nigerians must give the President time to prove himself, the member who represents Kagama / Gubio / Magumeri federal constituency Borno state hailed the level of thoroughness in the present administration.

On Tinubu's rebuke of the Minister of state for petroleum, Hon. Ngamdu said it should be looked as purely advisory. "People who want to cause problems for our party have started beating the drums of war but I see it as purely advisory this is why the minister has shown his understanding of Tinubu's position by apologising to Nigerians and fixing a date for the end to the  teething fuel shortage. This is a democracy and it is not wrong for citizens to engage government officials this is what the Asiwaju has done" He said