APC Senator Vows To Oppose Buhari’s Supplementary Budget

The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and Other Financial Institutions, Senator Rafiu Ibrahim, has vowed to oppose President Muhammadu Buhari’s supplementary budget request

Recall that Buhari, on Tuesday, wrote the National Assembly, asking that it approves N228,854,008,215 to fund the 2019 general elections and other projects.

He asked that the lawmakers’ vire the sum from the N9.12trillion 2018 budget.

Ibrahim, who represents Kwara-South senatorial district under the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC said, “I will not support it. I don’t believe that. That is not planning. Since we held the last poll, the next election time had been fixed.

“Since we did the last election, we already knew when we must do the next election as the Electoral Act stipulates.

“We already knew that a new government would be inaugurated on May 29, 2019.”