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The Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo on Monday met with the leadership of the National Assembly at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
The meeting was graced by Speaker of the House, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara, Senate Leader, Ahmed Lawan was organised as a proactive measure of ensuring easy passage and implementation of the 2017 budget subitted to the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari in December 2016.
Briefing newsmen after the meeting, Lawan disclosed that the 2017 Appropriation Bill was the major topic discussed.
Lawan said: “I am here to meet the Acting President, to brief him on what the Senate is doing on the Appropriation Bill 2017. You know we have suspended plenary for three weeks.
“The idea is to have ample time to focus on the Appropriation Bill. The committees will start to work from this week, meeting the MDAs on the budget defence that they need to do.
“Secondly, you know that the Acting President is an APC Acting President. As a new Senate Leader, it is also important that I come here to this office to tell the Acting President and our administration that the APC caucus in the Senate is now a united caucus.
“We are ready as a caucus to support our administration; we are also ready as a Senate, that is both the APC and the minority parties, to work for the betterment of Nigerians.
“Our colleagues in the opposition have always been supportive for the Senate to function.”
The meeting was graced by Speaker of the House, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara, Senate Leader, Ahmed Lawan was organised as a proactive measure of ensuring easy passage and implementation of the 2017 budget subitted to the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari in December 2016.
Briefing newsmen after the meeting, Lawan disclosed that the 2017 Appropriation Bill was the major topic discussed.
Lawan said: “I am here to meet the Acting President, to brief him on what the Senate is doing on the Appropriation Bill 2017. You know we have suspended plenary for three weeks.
“The idea is to have ample time to focus on the Appropriation Bill. The committees will start to work from this week, meeting the MDAs on the budget defence that they need to do.
“Secondly, you know that the Acting President is an APC Acting President. As a new Senate Leader, it is also important that I come here to this office to tell the Acting President and our administration that the APC caucus in the Senate is now a united caucus.
“We are ready as a caucus to support our administration; we are also ready as a Senate, that is both the APC and the minority parties, to work for the betterment of Nigerians.
“Our colleagues in the opposition have always been supportive for the Senate to function.”