It was reported that budget presentation, which was earlier slated to hold on Tuesday, Dec 17 was shifted to Wednesday 18 Dec.

It was also reported that all business operators and ancillary service providers like banks and food vendors have been told not to open for business by the management of the complex, given the budget presentation.

Visitors and non-essential staff, members of the National Assembly have also been told to stay at home till after the presentation of the budget.

It was reported that very few members of staff on essential duty officers with accreditation tags and a few journalists are being allowed to gain entrance into the complex.

Senate President Godswill Akpabio is expected to preside over the joint session along side Speaker of the House of Representatives, Abbas Tajudeen.

The budget presentation will be Tinubu’s second budget estimates to the National Assembly having assumed office on May 29 2023.

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This was revealed to journalists on Monday by the Chairman of the Transition Committee and immediate past Deputy governor of the state, Mallam Ibrahim Wakkala.

Wakkla said: “my committee while trying to ascertain the liabilities left behind by the immediate past administration of Hon. Abdulaziz Yari collected and went through the report submitted by a transition committee earlier set up by former Gov. Yari.

”We discovered from Yari’s committee that the sum of over N250 billion cannot be accounted for.

“This included liabilities from a total of 462 ongoing projects which stands at N151, 190,477,572.02 and unremitted National Housing Fund (NHF) and unpaid workers’ gratuity of N1, 431,645,305.99.

“Similarly, the state government is indebted to various examination bodies including NECO and WAEC and some higher institutions amounting to over N2. 8 billion,” he said.

He said that the outgone administration which released the sum of N2 billion for the payment of gratuity to retired workers only paid N400 million to retired Permanent Secretaries, while the remaining balance of N1. 6 billion had remained unaccounted.

Reacting to the allegations, the Special Adviser to the former governor, Alhaji Ibrahim Dosara, described them as “baseless and do not hold water”.

Dosara who spoke to our correspondent on phone from Saudi Arabia, said, “please wait for my return very soon, I will come and give you the correct version of what is on ground.”

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