Buhari Has Given Us Best Sallah Gifts ― Obasa

The Conference of Speakers of State Legislatures in Nigeria has described the approval of financial autonomy granted its members by President Muhammadu Buhari as the best Sallah gift from the latter.

The chairman of the Conference of Speakers, Rt. Hon Mudashiru Obasa, said this in a statement released on Saturday adding that the body was excited over the action of the President.

Buhari had, on Friday evening, signed an executive order granting financial autonomy to state legislatures and judiciaries months after Speaker Obasa led a team of his colleagues on a visit to the President at the Aso Rock Villa where he made the demand.

The Executive Order 10 signed by Buhari made it compulsory for the 36 states to always include the allocations of the legislature and the judiciary in the first-line charge of their budgets.

The order also made it mandatory for the Accountant-General of the Federation to deduct the amounts due to state legislature and judiciary from monthly allocations of states that refuse to implement the order.