FEC approves 2019 budget estimates

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved the proposed
2019 budget estimates.

The approval was given Friday at a special session of the
council chaired by President Muhammadu Buhari inside the Council
Chamber of State House villa, Abuja.

Briefing reporters at the end of the meeting, Minister of Budget
and Planning, Udoma Udoma, said “the estimates have been approved
and will soon be forwarded to the National Assembly for
passage”.

Asked to give details of the approved estimates, Mr Udoma
declined saying “that will mean usurping the powers of the
President.”

“He is the one who will present it. I don’t want to usurp his
powers,” he said.

The minister said the executive arm was already working with the
National Assembly to get a date for Mr Buhari to present the
budget.

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