The distortions that happened to Budget 2016, in which series of rogue projects and figures were injected into the financial document won’t happen to next year’s budget, President Muhammadu Buhari has vowed. Granting audience to members of the Governance Support Group (GSG), led by Hon. Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, at Aso Villa, Abuja, yesterday the president said, “I am waiting for the 2017 budget to be brought to us in Council. Any sign of padding anywhere, I will remove it.”President Buhari in a statement by his special adviser on media, Femi Adesina re-iterated that he had been in government since 1975, variously as governor, oil minister, head of state, and chairman of the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF), “and never did I hear the word ‘padding’ till the 2016 Budget.”
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