Buhari’s rift with Saraki, Dogara bad for President’s 2019 ambition — Investigation (Vanguard)

President Muhammadu Buhari’s quest to retain tenancy of the Aso Rock Presidential Villa beyond 2019 may literally walk a tightrope following widening rift between him and the duo of Senator Bukola Saraki and Rt.Hon. Yakubu Dogara, President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives respectively. As heads of the two arms of the legislative chambers, Saraki and Dogara have, in the past few months squared up against the Presidency; a development that played no mean role in the delay that characterised the signing of the 2018 Appropriation Bill into Law by President Buhari on Wednesday. Following the inputs of the federal parliaments into the appropriation bill, the President was expected to put pen to paper on the all-important document penultimate Wednesday, only for the signing to be postponed because of the unavailability of the heads of the parliamentary chambers. Read more

 

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