President Buhari postpones the Federal Executive Council, FEC, Meeting schedule for 10 am today till Monday afternoon.The Meeting was most called to look into the 2016 budget which Buhari would present to the senate on Tuesday.
The Minister of Information Lai Mohammed told Journalist that the meeting was not cancelled,it was postponement for the Ministers to reflect on some of the correction made at the National Executive Council meeting yesterday and return on Monday afternoon.
His words, “The reason is that you know there was a meeting of the National Economic Council yesterday (Thursday).
“At that meeting, many of the key cabinet members made presentations. There were some fallouts from those presentations that will necessitate going back to the original document that should have been discussed today
“So, we were given time between now and Monday to go and rejig our figures because when the NEC met, certain issues were thrown up that if they were not resolved, would distort the entire budget proposal. So we will all go back, each ministry will do its rejiging,” the Federal Government spokesman noted.
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