President Muhammadu Buhari has passed a vote of no confidence on the leadership of the National Assembly in the passage of the 2019 Budget.
Mr. Buhari stated this on Monday night, during a taped interview broadcast on Nigerian Television Authority.
The President said he had conveyed his reservation directly to the legislative leaders while signing the 2019 Budget on Monday morning.
His words: “I think a culture was developed in the National Assembly that they should dictate the terms, which was wrong. It is the executive that dictates the terms and takes it before the legislature. It (the legislature) will examine it and agree or disagree with it.
“But when they go around posing that they are the government and not the executive, then that’s the problem. I felt and I spoke personally to the Senate President, Saraki, and the leader of the House, Dogara. They could not deny it.
“I asked them how they felt to hold the country at ransom for seven months without passing a budget. Unfortunately, they were not hurting me; they were hurting the country. So, really, in terms of patriotism, I think I rated them very low indeed.
“But to hold a budget for seven months cannot be justified if you really bother about the country.”