Crisis as Tinubu turns against Buhari, See proof

The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, has opened another can of worm to the drama that has trailed the 2016 budget.

While expressing disappointments over the controversy that has trailed the alleged “missing budget”, Tinubu took a swipe at President Muhammadu Buhari when he described the scenario as embarrassing and a mark of unseriousness on the entire leadership of the Nation.

The APC National leader and publisher of The Nation Newspapers stated this in an editorial titled “Missing Budget” published on January 25, 2016. He  insisted that Buhari’s correctional letter submitted to the National Assembly was not enough, adding that he should swallow his pride and apologize to Nigerians.

“It is clear from the foregoing that the Senate did not cry wolf where there was none. Indeed, not only was there substance to the charge that the presidency was up to some mischief, it tried valiantly to cast the National Assembly as the unserious party.
“To that extent, the presidency stands rightly accused of bad faith in addition to the grave charge of dereliction of duty,” the APC chieftain posited.

Few days after Buhari presented the 2016 Appropriation bill of N6.08 trillion to the joint session of the National Assembly, the APC had described the budgetary figures as “curious” and “padded”, adding that the budgetary proposal lacked any traits of change.
On the heel of the missing budget that engulfed the nation, Buhari had on January 19, 2016 regretted the confusion the ‘missing 2016 budget’ had caused in the polity and urged the National Assembly to work with the corrected version.
Following the receipt of the President’s letter, the Senate adopted a motion reversing its earlier decision that it would only work on the document presented by Buhari on December 22 2015 and resolved that it would now consider the corrected version.

Reacting, Tinubu said: “The question of course remains: why will the President choose to lay a document he acknowledged as flawed before the National Assembly? Why seek to cure the defects identified by a method so clearly at variance with these provisions of the law?
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“… The missing budget is a shame and embarrassment that had lingered for the whole of the fortnight, something that had cast the entire leadership of the nation as unserious,” Tinubu had stated.