President Tinubu Not Scheduled to Present 2025 Budget Yet, Nat’l Assembly Clarifies
The management of the National Assembly has dismissed a report purporting that President Bola Tinubu will present the 2025 budget to a joint session of the parliament on Wednesday November 27, 2024.
In a statement issued on Tuesday by the Secretary, Research and Information (SRI), the National Assembly described the report published by an online newspaper that the budget story emanated from the SRI as “fake news.”
According to the statement, ” the National Assembly is yet to approve the 2024-2026 Medium Term Expenditure Framework MTEF and Fiscal Strategy Paper, forwarded to both chambers of the national assembly by Mr. President, before the official presentation of the 2025 budget.”
The SRI, therefore called on the public to disregard the fake information about the purpoted budget presentation.
The full statement reads:
The attention of the Secretary, Reseach and Information, (SRI), National Assembly, Dr. Ali Barde Umoru has been drawn to the purported fake news credited to him, alleging that His Excellency, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, will tomorrow Wednesday present the 2025 budget to the join session of the National Assembly.
The SRI described as false, the said news circulating on both social and mainstream media, and other outlets urging members of the public to disregard such information.
The secretary advised that any official enquiry and clarification should follow the official communication channels of the National Assembly.
He said the National Assembly is yet to approve the 2024-2026 Medium Term Expenditure Framework MTEF and Fiscal Strategy Paper, forwarded to both chambers of the national assembly by Mr. President, before the official presentation of the 2025 budget.
In view of the above, the SRI warns peddlers of such information to desist forthwith from using his office to mislead members of the public .
Signed:
Director Information
Audu Bullah Biallah
for: Secretary Research and Information,
National Assembly..