What Are You Hiding From Nigerians? – PDP Questions Akpabio Over Alleged Budget Padding

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has challenged the senate president, Godswill Akpabio to conduct thorough investigation into the N3.7trn 2024 Budget padding allegation.

Naijaloaded reports that a Senator representing Bauchi Central, Abdul Ningi, alleged that the money was added into the 2024 Budget for projects that does not exist.

Senator Ningi was however suspended by the Senate for three months following his startling revelation that the National Assembly inflated the 2024 budget to the tune of N28.7 trillion.

In a statement on Wednesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, PDP slammed the leadership of the senate for suspending Ningi without any proper investigation into the alleged budget padding issue.

The statement read:

“We ask, why did the APC leadership in the Senate not refer the matter to the appropriate Senate Standing Committee for an open investigation in line with the extant Rules of the Senate? What is the APC Senate leadership afraid of and what is it hiding from Nigerians?

“It is even more absurd that instead of recusing himself, the Senate President sat as a judge in the matter; a situation that has the capacity to bring the institution of the Senate to further public disrepute.

“The Peoples Democratic Party demands that the Senate President, Senator Godswill Akpabio, immediately step aside and allow for an independent investigation into the allegation that a staggering N3.7 trillion was discreetly inserted into the 2024 budget for alleged non-existent projects.

“The party also demands that Senator Akpabio immediately reports at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission over the pending case of alleged looting of N108 billion belonging to the people of Akwa Ibom State under his watch as Governor of the State.

“Furthermore, the Senate President should speak out on the reported N86bn contract scam in the Niger Delta Development Commission during his tenure as the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs.”

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