President Bola Tinubu, late last night, reacted for the first time to the allegation of budget padding by Senator Abdul Ningi from Bauchi State, and concluded that those alleging malicious embellishment of the 2024 financial Budget didn’t understand its arithmetic.
Tinubu said he knew the arithmetic of the numbers that he brought to the Senate, when he presented the 2024 budget and also knew what he got back when it was passed.
“Those who are talking about malicious embellishment in the budget; they did not understand the arithmetic and did not refer to the baseline of what I brought.
“I know the arithmetic of the budget and the numbers that I brought to the National Assembly, and I know what numbers came back”
Recall that Senator Abdul Ningi accused the leadership of the National Assembly of padding the 2024 budget, claiming that the budget was padded with projects that were not initially included in the executive proposal.
The president, however, assured Nigerians that the current security and economic challenges facing the country would soon become a thing of the past, confident that the nation would surmount its challenges.
