Jonathan not prepared for leadership, says Saraki

Senate President Bukola Saraki said yesterday that former President Goodluck Jonathan was not prepared for leadership.

He, however, described him as a man who never wanted to unnecessarily cling on to power.

Borno State Governor Kashim Shettima lampooned the ex-President for his inaction when the Chibok schoolgirls were abducted.

He said the former President almost removed him from office as a result of the girls’ abduction but for the intervention of a former Attorney-General of the Federation Mohammed Bello (SAN) and a former Minister of Special Duties Tanimu Turaki.

2018 Budget: Saraki Queries Rising Recurrent Expenditure

Senate may pass MTEF today •Bill mandates IOCs to remit 3% of budget for N’Delta development

-Damilola Oyedele in Abuja

The Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has expressed worry over the rising recurrent expenditure as being observed in the 2018 N8.612trillion Appropriation Bill.

Saraki said the increase is probably caused by corruption through the recurrent expenditure, after the government blocked leakages in capital expenditure.

The sum of N2.65 trillion was appropriated as recurrent expenditure in the 2016 N6.06 trillion budget. In the 2017 N7.3 trillion budget, N2.9 trillion was appropriated for recurrent, but as at November 2017, the Minister of Budget and National Planning,