The Presidency on Thursday
responded to a statement credited to Senator Dino Melaye, representing Kogi West,
lambasting President Muhammadu Buhari over the 2018 budget controversy.
Recall that Melaye
had urged President Buhari to stop playing to the gallery over the 2018 budget.
The lawmaker was quoted saying,
“I noticed that PMB is trying to whip up sentiments against the National
Assembly again by alleging that the 2018 budget was padded.
“What the President is authorised
to do constitutionally is to present the National Assembly with a bill. A bill
is a work in progress and not the finished work.
“The National Assembly is not
just expected to rubber stamp whatever bill the President presents. If this was
the norm then there would have been no need for the Constitution to direct that
the Bill be submitted to the N/A in the first place.”
Reacting, Buhari’s aide, Lauretta
Onochie on her Twitter page said Dino Melaye should not tarnish the image of
the NASS further.
“A National Assembly with Sen
Melaye who is standing trial for criminal offences and who commutes between a
Court and the House of Senate, does not need more help to further smear it,”
Onochie tweeted.
Ashawo Lauertta Onochie is a well known harlot thinking that we don't know much about her but let them leave office come 2019 so that EFCC,ICPC,SSS,DSS,FSARS and other security agencies will go after her.fool
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