The acting vice president, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo made history
Monday when he signed the 2017 budget at his office in Abuja, reports ITRealms.
With the signing of the Appropriation Bill into law for the
year 2017, Prof. Osinbajo historically is the first Nigeria’s acting president
to perform such a duty.
This follows the
endorsement of President Muhammadu Buhari authorizing him to perform that
constitutional assignment.
Senior Special Assistant
to the President, (Media & Publicity), Mr. Garba Shehu, according to the
receipt of a full brief on the 2017 Appropriation Bill as passed by the
National Assembly.
He buttressed the unity
at the highest level of government, stressing that President Muhammadu Buhari
has indicated that it is in the interest of the nation's economy for the Acting
President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, to sign the Appropriation Bill into law.
In a letter dated June
10, 2017, which he personally signed and addressed to the Minister of Budget and National Planning,
Senator Udoma Udo Udoma, the President also said he was "pleased by the
joint resolution that the Executive would submit next year's budget proposals
by October 2017 and the National Assembly will conclude the Appropriation
process by December 2017, so that the country can return to a normal fiscal
period from next year onwards."
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