{"id":23213,"date":"2024-03-14T10:22:39","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T10:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=23213"},"modified":"2024-03-14T10:22:39","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T10:22:39","slug":"shehu-sani-explains-senators-silence-on-budget-padding-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/03\/14\/shehu-sani-explains-senators-silence-on-budget-padding-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"Shehu Sani Explains Senators&#8217; Silence on Budget Padding Allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of Bauchi Central Senator Abdul Ningi&#8217;s suspension and his allegations of budget padding, former lawmaker Shehu Sani sheds light on why many senators remain silent on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ningi had raised concerns about the padding of the 2024 appropriation budget by N3.7 trillion, leading to his suspension for three months by the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>During the deliberations, Senate President Godswill Akpabio advocated for a fair hearing regarding Ningi&#8217;s allegations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After his suspension, Ningi expressed his determination to continue speaking out, suggesting that he had opened a Pandora&#8217;s box that neither he nor the Senate could control.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In response to the silence of some senators, Shehu Sani, a former senator from Kaduna Central District, highlighted the divisions within the Senate. He stated, &#8220;It\u2019s either your Senator is on the side of Akpabio or on the side of Ningi. The Senators who maintain silence are either afraid of the public or afraid of suspension.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of Bauchi Central Senator Abdul Ningi&#8217;s suspension and his allegations of budget padding, former lawmaker Shehu Sani sheds light on why many senators remain silent on the matter. &nbsp; Ningi had raised concerns about the padding of the 2024 appropriation budget by N3.7 trillion, leading to his suspension for three months by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":22994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23214,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23213\/revisions\/23214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}