The
president of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki has pleaded with Nigerians against politicizing the request by President
Muhammadu Buhari to borrow $29.9 billion to fund social infrastructure in the
country between 2016 and 2018.
Recall
that the Senate on Tuesday outrightly threw out the request of the president on
the basis that it lacked a detailed
borrowing plan. To this end, the Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed
while briefing State House Correspondents at the end of the meeting of the
Federal Executive Council, FEC on Wednesday said that the federal government
would re-present a more detailed request to the senate.
According
to him, the senate needed a detailed information on the loan, saying it would
be made available. Confronted with the issue on whether the matter had marred
the relationship that existed between the Executive and Legislative arms of
government, the senate president, Saraki who was in the presidential Villa,
Abuja for Friday worship stated that the relationship between the legislature
and the executive was still a work in progress. “I came here to pray. I have
finished praying and I just had a general felicitation with the President. It
didn’t go beyond that. “We should not look at that as a reflection of the
relationship. Don’t let us politicize very important issues. As we said our
relationship is work in progress,” he said, emphatically meaning that the issue
of the loan was a different matter for which the position of the Senate is well
known.
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