Thursday, December 19, 2024 - The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on the National Assembly to reject the proposed 2025 Appropriation Bill, labeling it as anti-people
The party said that if the proposed budget is implemented as presented
it will plunge the nation deeper into the abyss of insecurity, poverty and
hopelessness.
Debo Ologunagba, the spokesperson of the PDP, in a statement on
Wednesday said the president’s budget address was like “campaign rhetoric laced
with unsubstantiated economic statistics”.
Daily Post reported that President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday presented a
national budget of N47.96 trillion for 2025 to the joint session of lawmakers
in the National Assembly.
Tinubu said that the budget would trigger the prosperity of Nigerians in
2025 if implemented to the letter, adding that it would restore and consolidate
on key policies of the government.
However, Ologunagba said that the budget “made no meaningful provisions”
for “real drivers of the national economy”.
“The PDP states that the budget address
sounded more like a campaign rhetoric laced with unsubstantiated economic
statistics, false promises and conjured performance claims without clear-cut
operable steps and mechanisms to address insecurity, resuscitate the economy,
revamp ailing industries, shore up food production, increase the value of the
Naira, reduce overall cost of living, create jobs for our youths and guarantee
better living standard for citizens.
“President Tinubu dashed the hope of millions of suffering Nigerians who
expected him to use the 2025 budget to make strategic provisions that will lead
to the reduction in the cost of fuel, food items, electricity tariff and other
essential goods and services that have direct bearing on the wellbeing of the
people
“The PDP therefore calls on the National Assembly not to pass the 2025 budget
as presented but activate its legislative powers as guaranteed under Sections
80, 81 and 82 of the 1999 Constitution to rejig the budget and make provisions
that are critical and pivotal to the growth of the economy and the welfare of
Nigerians,” part of the statement read.
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