At 11:00am this morning, the minister for finance and cordinating
minister for the economy, ngozi okonjo iweala presented the 2014 budget
to both house of the national assembly on behalf of pres. Jonathan. Mrs
okonjo iweala first laid the budget before the senate where everything
went on smoothly and within minutes, she and her entourage laid the bill
and were excused from the senate chamber.
However, when the
minister arrived the house of representative and was invited by the
speaker to lay the house. She was met with shouts of "APC...APC..APC" by
members of the opposition, apparently making clear their ownership of
the chamber due to their new found majority. Members of the PDP
responded by shouting PDP too. The minister then went on to shake hands
with the PDP house leaders prompting APC members to demand she shakes
their leaders too. She did. Prompting more chants of "APC" from the
opposition and return chants of "PDP" by it's members. The minister left
the chamber in noise and rival chants. This might have been the reason
the president declined presenting the budget himself, and nigerians are
beginning to see the consequences for the first time in our democracy of
divided government.
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