President Muhammadu Buhari will, on Wednesday, signed the 2018 budget into law, this is even as this week’s Federal Executive Council (FEC) has been put off.
Findings by our correspondent revealed that the budget will be signed at 11:00am on Wednesday.
The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, had last week disclosed to State House Correspondents while briefing on the outcomes of FEC meeting that the 2018 Appropriation Biill of N9.1 trillion will be assented to by President Buhari this week.
Both chambers of the National Assembly had on May 16, 2018 approved the budget estimates submitted by Buhari on November 7, 2017.
The lawmakers also raised the total figure from N8.6 trillion to N9.1 trillion, six months after it was presented.
Meanwhile, this week’s FEC meeting will not hold due to the public holiday delayed by the federal government to celebrate the Sallah, marking the end of the Ramadan month, The Witness learnt.
Despite being 76 years old, President Buhari who is naturally fragile and lanky in nature completed the lengthy Ramadan Fast.
President Muhammadu Buhari has said his participation in this year’s Ramadan Fast has improved his health more than it was initially.
Mr Buhari stated this on Friday at his official residence in the Presidential Villa, Abuja when he played host to a delegation of federal capital territory (FCT) led by Mohammed Bello, the minister of FCT.
The president who said he could not participate in last year’s fast because he was away on health vacation noted that he did not want the situation to repeat itself this year hence his involvement this year.
In 2017, Buhari spent over 150 days in London, treating an undisclosed ailment. In 2018, He has also visited his London doctors on three known occasions.
“I’m very grateful to the ministers and church leadership that came to say happy Eid-Filtri to those of us that have been fasting,” he said.
“A lot of people asked me if on health grounds I could fast. I refused not to because I know the value in fasting, I cannot miss it once I can do it.