Peter Obi Demands Complete Review Of 2024 Budget Amid Alleged Budget Padding

Labour Party’s candidate in the 2023 general election, Peter Obi, has demanded a detailed review of the 2024 budget amid the recent N3.7 trillion padding by the Senate.

The former Anambra State governor on Monday said that the National Assembly needs to begin a comprehensive review of the budget, to facilitate the urgent redirection of funds to vital sectors.

Peter Obi noted that Nigeria is dealing with a wide range of challenges in education, healthcare, economic, and power sectors, hence immediate attention and budget allocations is of utmost importance.

In his words:

“Having followed the controversies trailing the 2024 budget and having read some of the budgetary provisions and allocations of resources, I wish to respectfully appeal for a total review of the entire budget.

“The Executive and Legislative arms should initiate an immediate review of the budget as it is still in early days of implementation in order to enable them do urgent virement of resources to critical areas.

The nation’s resources should adequately be appropriated to critical areas like security, fighting poverty and solving the challenges of hunger and food insecurity, power supply, especially considering the difficult times that we are in.”

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