Refused $30bn loan: Osinbajo, Saraki, Dogara meet without BUHARI
Yemi Osinbajo, the vice president, Bukola Saraki, the president of the Senate, and Yakubu Dogara, the speaker of the House of Representatives, are holding a meeting at the moment.
The three top officials reportedly met at the office of the vice president at the presidential villa in Abuja, on Monday, November 14, according to Daily Post.
President Muhammadu Buhari and Senate President Bukola Saraki also met on Friday, November 11
Although the purpose of the meeting remains unclear, it’s highly likely that the trio are discussing the Senate’s decision to reject President Muhammadu Buhari’s $30bn loan request as well as the 2016-2018 medium term expenditure framework.
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However, Femi Adesina, the special adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on media and publicity, stressed that the loan request was not actually rejected and would be resent back but with more details.
Mr Adesina said: “Yes, it makes sense to represent. You will notice that what the Senate said was that, it needed more details about the bid for loan and it was not that it rejected the idea completely.
Now, on the basis of that, if government did not represent, it won’t show you as a serious government in the first place.
This is not a flippant government and before it asked for that kind of loan, it did its homework properly, and if the Senate says it needs more details, then more details would be provided and the request would be represented.”
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While asked about performance of the current cabinet Adesina responded: “Let me refer you to the Good Book. It says, “who are you to judge another man’s servant? It is before his master that he either rises or falls.”
The president assembled that cabinet, he has timelines and deliverables for them. So he is the one who can judge and assess them. If he is going to re-jig that cabinet, it is going to be his decision, his prerogative.”
Recall that this is the third time Senate President Bukola Saraki has visited the presidential villa, only last Friday he was summoned by the president for a close-doors meeting.
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