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Budget 2024: N3.7trillion budget padding real – Sen. Ningi
*Says I’m not afraid of suspension
* Charge Ningi for criminal misinformation – Sen Jimoh Ibrahim
By Emmanuel Agaji
Chairman, Northern Senators Forum, Sen Abdul Ningi has dared the Senate to suspend him if they think that his allegation that the 2024 budget was padded to the tune of about N3 trillion is a ruse. The ranking lawmaker
insisted that he would stand by the contents of the interview he granted the BBC Hausa Service, but explained that he never said the Federal Government is running two different budgets.
He blamed the allegation of the government running two budgets on wrong interpretation by those who translated his interview from Hausa to English Language.
” At no time did I say Bola Ahmed Tinubu is implementing two budgets.There was no time, I said Bola Tinubu was biased against the north. The Hausa version is there.
“I said we have established beyond reasonable doubt about N25 trillion so far has nexus in the budget. That means that there is money, there is project and then there is location. But we are yet to ascertain N3 trillion of that budget. We have established the N3 trillion of that budget, we have not established its location and the place.
“But i said going forward, the budget evaluation is ongoing. And I said lastly, the intention of the northern senators as regards budgetary allocation was to meet the Senate President with our findings and subsequently meet president Bola Ahmed Tinubu with our findings,” he said.
Ningi also clarified that he granted the controversial interview in his personal capacity as the Senator representing Bauchi Central District of Bauchi State and not as Chairman of the Northern Senators Forum.
He said he was not afraid of being suspended by the Senate or facing any other repercussions because he bared his mind not only on the budger but on the state of the nation.
Meanwhile, the Senator representing Ondo South Senatorial District, Sen Jimoh Ibrahim, has urged the Inspector General of Police to charge Ningi to court for deliberate misinformation with intent to cause a breach of public peace.
Ibrahim said that Ningi cannot claim that his interview was mis- translated because he had earlier made the same allegations when he confronted the President of the Senate , Sen Godswill Akpabio before granting the interview to the BBC Hausa Service.
“What I want to mention to you today is that we don’t have two appropriations, and that Senator Ningi must be charged to court for breach of peace and criminal misinformation
“I have decided as a senator representing the good people of Ondo South to ask the Inspector General of Police and the Federal Government to as a matter of urgency charge Ningi for misinformation, criminal misinformation of course, and misconduct likely going to cause the breach of peace.
“If the senate will not move to do that within the next seven days, I will write a letter (and I have started that ) to the IGP to investigate the circumstances leading to the approval of two appropriations in 2024 and bring the culprits to book. If the IGP will not do it I will ask for the Order of Mandamus to compel a public officer to do that which he ought to do in accordance with the law ,” Ibrahim said.
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Edo To Get First Lady As Gov Okpebholo Reportedly Set To Quit Bachelorhood
By Kayode Sanni-Arewa
December 24, (THEWILL) – Barring any last minute change of heart, the governor of Edo State, Monday Okpebholo, is allegedly set to marry his side chick, a California-based lady, Jennifer, the daughter of Sharon Ogaga, who is a native of Auchi and is believed to be in her 30s.
THEWILL reports that the marriage is scheduled to be held in Potter Ranch, California, in January 2024, while Aso ebi for the event is being distributed to friends of the bride for a fee around America, Europe and Africa, the letter of invitation only identifies Jennifer, but does not mention the identity of the husband-to-be, in what appears to be a deliberate attempt to mask governor Okpebolo’s identity and shield him from the controversial move.
What is weird is that Jennifer and her family are being coy with the identity of the man she is marrying.
One of THEWILL’s sources, however, has a direct confirmation that Governor Okpebholo is the “husband-in-waiting.”
“They are only telling people that Jennifer is getting married. They are not revealing the identity of the man. It is obvious they are hiding something, probably they don’t want distractions to taint the ceremony,” one of the sources said.
THEWILL does not know the status of Okpebholo’s current marriage to Blessing Okpabi Okpebholo, the mother of his two daughters, who was a no-show during his inauguration as governor.
It, however, appears that their marriage is over because it is illegal to be married to more than one person under the laws of the United States.
According to one of our sources, Senator Adams Oshiomhole allegedly hooked Jennifer up with the governor.
The governor’s Special Adviser on Media, Osiobughie Okhuemoi, said he was unaware of the development when THEWILL contacted him for comments a few days ago.
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