Police Raid on Goje’s Home Stalls Passage of 2017 Budget N’Assembly to probe raid House gives police 24 hours to return documents Buhari seeks approval for $6.92bn external loans
Damilola Oyedele and James Emejo in Abuja The passage of the 2017 budget has been delayed by last
week’s raid on the Abuja home of the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriation, Senator Danjuma Goje, by officers of the Nigeria Police.
Goje, speaking at plenary yesterday in his first public comments since the incident, said the policemen carted away his personal laptop
and critical files relating to the budget from his study. The Senate had assured Nigerians that the 2017 budget, which was laid
last December, would be passed and transmitted to President Muhammadu Buhari immediately after resumption from the Easter recess.
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Tinubu: Osinbajo was Hesitant When He was Chosen as Buhari’s Running Mate
Says vice-president first consulted Pastor Adeboye before accepting Blames Saraki, New PDP governors, others for truncating his vice-presidential ambition Narrates how Bakare, Akeredolu’s names were pushed as possible VP contenders Tobi Soniyi A National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and one of the principal actors that led the campaign to wrest power from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2015 elections, Chief Bola Tinubu, has revealed that when he called Prof. Yemi Osinbajo
to inform him that he had been chosen to be President Muhammadu Buhari’s running mate to contest the 2015 presidential election, he (Osinbajo) was a bit hesitant. Tinubu, who made the disclosure in the book, ‘Against the Run of Play – How an Continued on page 9
It’s Not Compulsory for President to Preside over Cabinet Meetings, Say APC Govs President works from home Wednesday
Omololu Ogunmade, Onyebuchi Ezigbo and Olawale Ajimotokan in Abuja
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) yesterday explained that President Muhammadu Buhari’s absence at the weekly cabinet meeting was preceded by a formal request to the
council, informing it of his decision to rest and work from home. The government also said the president consequently asked Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo to preside over yesterday’s meeting on his Continued on page 9
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Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike; Minister of Agriculture, Chief Audu Ogbeh; and Minister of State for Agriculture, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, during the ministers’ visit to Wike at the Government House, Port Harcourt, Rivers State... yesterday