Senator Shehu Sani on Thursday said that the government of President Muhammadu Buhari has not made significant impact in the life of Nigerians.
The outspoken lawmaker representing Kaduna central in the Senate stated this when he appeared as a guest on Channel’s Televisions Politics Today to discuss the 2019 budget proposal presented to the national assembly by the President on Wednesday.
According to Sani, “the performance of the government has not made any significant progress between 2017 and now”.
He, however, noted that booing a “president is not the best way of challenging the facts”.
Sani said that the lawmakers at the National Assembly on the day of the proposed budget presentation lost a great opportunity to put the president to task and challenge the figures that he doled out.
The lawmaker had in a tweet on Wednesday lambasted his colleagues for the uproar experienced during the joint session held for the presentation of the proposed 2019 budget.
He said the performance which President Muhammadu Buhari raised was questionable, but the parliamentarians failed to compose themselves in a bid to truly ascertain the viability of the figures presented.
But Hon Adamu Abubakar, who differed with Senator Sani’s take on the proposed budget presentation, said,” Mr. President was categorical during the presentation of the budget”.
Speaking while on the same programme, Adamu said the jeers and cheers at the National Assembly on Wednesday were all part of politics.
He said Buhari made it clear that “there was implementation” of the ‘2018 budget’.
Adding that some lawmakers including himself have taken the pains to verify claims made by the President, hence the reason they are confident in the 2019 ‘Budget of Continuity’.