President Muhammadu Buhari has
said he looks forward to a “mutual and effective working relationship with the
ninth National Assembly.”
This, he said would ensure
improvement in the “budgetary process and restoring the country to the
January-December fiscal cycle.”
Buhari made the remark while
hosting his old school mates, who came to congratulate him on his re-election
for a second term in Daura, Katsina State and was contained in a statement
signed and forwarded by his Media Aide, Garba Shehu.
The President recounted how the
delay in the passage of budgets hindered timely execution of projects across
the country.
With the victory of the All
Progressives Congress (APC) at the presidential election and majority seats in
the ninth Senate, President Buhari expressed confidence that more work will be
done to improve the efficiency of the budgetary process.
The President told his classmates
in the 1953 set of Katsina Middle School, Daura, led by Senator Abba Ali, that
it was on record that the 2018 budget proposals submitted to the National
Assembly on November 7, 2017, was passed after seven months.
Notwithstanding the challenges,
the President assured his classmates that the Executive arm of government,
under his watch, “will strive towards effective implementation of national
budgets while promoting transparency and accountability.”
He thanked his old school colleagues
for the ‘reunion’, commending their interest and useful suggestions on
advancing Nigeria’s prosperity and stability.
In his remarks, Senator Ali,
while congratulating the President on his re-election, said majority of
Nigerians believed in his purposeful leadership and resoundingly renewed his
mandate.
The Senator, who wished the
President success in his second-term, noted that the country will benefit more
when the executive and legislative branches of government work in unison on
national interests.
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