Buhari, Nigerians will Benefit Greatly from Budget Padding scandal – APC chieftain

 

A chieftain of the All progressive congress, Mr Osita Okechukwu, has stated that Pres. Muhammad Buhari and Nigerians in general will eventually be the greatest beneficiaries of the budget padding scandal currently rocking the House of Representatives.

The Director-General of the Voice of Nigeria, VON, stated this in Imo State, while fielding questions from newsmen at the burial of the former chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Abuja council, late Comrade Chuks Ehirim.

While pointing out that the president had earlier raised the alarm over the budget he presented to the National Assembly and what was returned back to him for approval, he argued that if the allegations of budget padding against the Speaker by the former chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations were properly handled, it would end many years of such criminal acts.

“Let me start by saying that on the budget padding allegation, it is the Nigerian people, the president, Muhammad Buhari and our party at the national level that would be the greatest beneficiaries of the row,” he said.

The former spokesman of the South-East APC however cautioned the leadership of the ruling party not to treat the allegation as a family affair, stating that such issues which were treated in the past as family affair brought the country to its knees.