The Nation Newspaper Budget padding saga: Ningi's dangerous play
Senator Abdul Ningi representing Bauchi Central recently granted an interview to the BBC Hausa Service in which he made three allegations that are still reverberating in the Nigerian polity.
Ningi as a super sleuth? And his intended victims are already indicted by word of mouth and not by a court of competent jurisdiction? A tragicomedy of errors? The great irony is that you can count on them to start singing an entirely different tune when an individual they consider to be ‘agreeable’ is at the receiving end.
He’s a ranking member of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee. The draft budget laid on the table of the Senate by President Bola Tinubu was sent to his committee for evaluation, observations and recommendations. Furthermore, as NSF Chairman, he presided over caucus meetings the body conducted to discuss how best to promote the developmental interests of the region.
Prior to toeing the path he chose, Ningi must’ve considered that his gambit was a low risk/high payoff venture. Low risk because the maths favoured members of the NSF and their lackeys from the South; high payoff because it put President Tinubu under increasing pressure to dole out more project funds to the North to plug a phantom budget differential.
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