Former Benue State Governor, Gabriel Suswam, has faulted President Bola Tinubu’s planned 2024 budget.
Suswam stated that the budget cannot be implemented due to its N17 trillion deficit.
On Wednesday, Tinubu submitted a proposed budget for the fiscal year 2024 to members of the National Assembly.
Suswam, on the other hand, claimed that the budget was prepared because those in charge lacked leadership abilities.
On Wednesday, the former governor addressed 25 Emerging Political Leaders Fellowship members.
According to Suswam:
“I was looking at the budget, out of the whole money in that budget, the deficit is N17 trillion.
“Because you have N9 trillion of deficit, N8 trillion of debt service, then you have N2.7 trillion of tax expenditure, that is a waiver.
“So the entire money, the N27 trillion budget is not implementable. Do you know why we have that? Because we have people in leadership with no intellectual content.”