On Tuesday, Edo North Senator Adams Oshiomhole condemned the budget padding allegations that is shaking the Senate.
Oshiomhole complained that the Senate had been stripped nude in the marketplace.
He stated on the Senate floor during the debate over the N3.7 trillion budget claim made by Bauchi Central Senator Abdul Ningi.
Ningi, the Chairman of the Northern Senators Forum, said that the National Assembly deliberated and approved N25 trillion as the 2024 budget, rather than the N28.7 trillion adopted by the Federal Government.
He made the allegation during an interview with the BBC Hausa Service.
According to Oshiomhole: “We have been stripped naked in the market place, so we can’t now wrap it up like it’s nothing
“He has made credible contributions in this Senate so I think he can still remedy it having agreed that something went wrong.
“What was the figure in the Appropriation Bill that was approved? Somebody answered N28 billion, therefore, any suggestion that it was N25 billion is simply a lie.
“The problem of trying to defend a lie is that you have to stick to more lies to defend lies
“Ningi has a duty to his children that he will not be the man reported in the media as saying what is not true.”