Governor Ayodele
Fayose of Ekiti State has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to save the country
of the national embarrassment being caused by the 2016 Budget that he presented
to the National Assembly by formally withdrawing the budget and re-presenting
it. According to a statement issued yesterday by his Special Assistant on Pubic
Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, the governor said “the President
should admit that there were avoidable errors in the budget and since he is
human and not immune to errors, he should simply do the needful by presenting a
new and credible budget to the National Assembly.” Governor Fayose described
revelation by the Health Minister, Prof. Isaac Adewole, that the proposal drawn
up by the ministry and submitted to the budget office had been doctored and
that “foreign” appropriations, different from what was submitted, had been
sneaked in as the height of national embarrassment.
