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Yar’Adua Defers 2010 Budget Address …As Senate, Reps Rift Deepens
The gulf between the two apex law making bodies of the federation, the Senate and the House of Representatives has continued to widen moreso with gross negative impact on national matters as witnessed Thursday when the presentation of the 2010 budget earlier scheduled was postponed indefinitely.
According to the Special Adviser to Mr President on National Assembly Matters, Senator Abba Ibrahim, who spoke to senate correspondents, the postponement was to allow the two chambers time to put their house together.
The scheduled presentation of the 2010 budget before a joint session of the national assembly will not hold as schedule. It will now hold at a later date, he said.
“It is not holding because we have a policy of non interference with respect to separation of power and you all know that there is a little house keeping left to be concluded in the national assembly between the two chambers, so we are allowing them time to put their house together”.
The Chairman, Senate Committee on Information, Senator Ayogu Eze had Wednesday in his weekly breifing told correspondents that the Chairman of the National Assembly, and President of the Senate, Senator David Mark has announced that the venue of the presentation of the budget 2010 by President Umaru Musa Yaradua will hold in the Senate Chambers and not in the House of Reps Chambers as it was in the past.
This development from all indications has emphasised the disagreements between the two Houses and no doubt led to the decision to put off the presentation to a later date.
Fielding questions on the said feud, the Presidential Adviser on NASS, Abba Aji, said he does not want to speculate into the problems of the two Houses but rather believed that they are capable of resolving their differences.
The presidential adviser who refferred to the 2010 budget as a major budget however said the budget is not coming late.
By Senator Abba’s speech, the budget presentation could come up anytime before the end of next month.
Nneka Amaechi-Nnadi, Abuja
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