Buhari's 2019 budget a hopeless document - Saraki

Date: 2018-12-23

The Director General of the PDP Presidential Campaign Council and Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has described the 2019 budget presented to the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari as a hopeless document.

Saraki asked Nigerians not to expect much from the appropriation bill even if it is signed.

He stated this at an interactive session between the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) on Thursday night in Abuja.

Saraki, in his opening remark, argued that the budget proposal presented by Buhari on Wednesday has no future because the statistics does not indicate the financial model by which it will be funded.

"Yesterday (Wednesday), we all heard the 2019 budget. That is a budget that has no hope for anybody because if you look at the statistics and the figures there's poverty, if you look at the figures based on revenues that are coming in, there is nothing left. So where's the future?

"There must be an alternative and that is what we hope that by this evening we speak to our candidate and vice presidential candidate, not based on sentiments. We are not voting on sentiments, we are voting on what is the need for you.

"How is your life going to be better? Which party offers you a better future because we see you as those who are patriotic and committed. It's not about what you'll get today. It's about the great country a lot of you expect to see," he said.

At the event, the PDP vice presidential candidate, Peter Obi, lamented that 60 percent of the 2019 budget was dedicated to debt servicing under the APC government which he noted has surpassed what was accrued in the 16 years of the PDP-led government.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

A.E. Afolabi     Demola Banu     Oba Sulaiman Asude     Razaq Atunwa     Smart School     Kazeem Gbolagade     Ahman Patigi     Kehinde Boyede     IEDPU     Share     Hamid Bobboyi     Salman Suleiman     Saidu Yaro Musa     Erubu Oba Zubair     Dunmade     Afonja Descendants Union     Atiku Abubakar     Igbaja     Afolabi-Oshatimehin Adenike Harriet     Abiodun Musa Aibinu     Ilorin International Airport     Dan Iya     Abubakar Aliagan     Bolaji Abdullahi     Akeem Lawal     Lawyers Unite Against Corruption     Simeon Ajibola     IQRA College     National Party Of Nigeria     Obayomi Azeez     Ahmed Idris Mohammed     Kwara 2023     Muslimah Entrepreneurship Forum     Esinrogunjo     Taofeek Ibraheem     Public Holiday     Christopher Ayeni     Olohungbebe     Tunji Arosanyin     Sobi     Kamoru Kadiri     Oke-Kura     Vasolar Consultoria     Kamaldeen Ajibade     Falokun-Oja     Mohammed Yisa     Abubakar Baba Sulaiman     National Information Technology Development Agency     Oloriegbe     Mufutau Olatinwo     Saliu Mustapha     Alaro     Coalition Of Kwara North Groups     Taofeeq Olateju     IYA ALFA NLA     Idofin     Moses Rahman Popoola     Bello Oyebanji     All Confederation Of Principals Of Secondary Schools     Stephen Fasakin     Al-Adaby     Oke Sunna     Kwara State Polytechnic     AGM Professional Services     Kamaldeen Gambari     Islamic Development Bank     Kwara Metro Park     Ahmad Olayiwola Kamaldeen     Kwarareports.com     Mutawalle     Mumeen Lah     Asa LGEA School     Adamu B. Yaqubu     Sardauna     Hussein Oloyede     Toun Okewale-Sonaiya     Olayinka Jelili Yusuf    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Mary Arinde     UNILORIN Alumni     Agor     Babatunde Idiagbon     Olabode Towoju     Bayer Nigeria Limited     Gurei     Funmilayo Isiaka Oniwa     Face Masks     Abdulhakeem Amao     Shehu Adaramaja     Kayode Oyin-Zubair     Fatima Abolore Jimoh     Alfa Modibo Belgore     Afusat Nike Ibrahim     Jeunkunu-Malete-Bani     Ahmad Olanrewaju Belgore     Ibikunle Ogunleye     Wasiu Odewale     Hauwa Nuru     Mustapha Olanipekun     Suleiman Idris     Rihanat Ajia     NTA Ilorin     Taofeeq Olateju     Umar Saro     Mohammed Tunde-Jimoh     Charcoal     Funmilayo Braithwaite     Orire     Gabriel Fashanu     Babs Iwarere     Adama Isa     Rotimi Samuel Olujide     Agbarere     Nigerian Supreme Council For Islamic Affairs     Kisira     March 18     Oyin-Zubair     Akande Idowu Ayoola Muhammed     Abdulmutalib Shittu     Kwara State Fish Farmers Association     Gbenga Adebayo     Dapo Teni Nig Enterprise     Eleja     Suleiman Ajadi     Durosinlohun Atiku     Asa LGEA School     11th Galadima     Lasiele Alabi Yahaya     Fatai Adeniyi Garba     Abdulmumini Jawondo     Mohammed Ibrahim     Abdullateef Abdussalam     KWTV     National Pilot     Offa Grammer School     Marufat Oladosu     Oluronke Adeyemi     Budo Egba     Allocation     Bolaji Gambari     Hikmah AbdulKareem     Idi-Ape     Adam Abdullahi Al-Ilory     Lucky Omoluwa     Naira Redesign     Tafida Of Ilorin     Justina Oha     NNPP     Shuaibu Yaman Abdullahi     Sebastine Obasi     Col. Taiwo     Modibo Kawu     Taofik Abiodun Ahmed     Orisun Igbomina     Afonja Descendants Union