Baba-Ahmed Presses NASS, FG to Explain N6 Trillion in 2025 Budget

President Bola Tinubu’s former Special Adviser on Political Affairs, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, has called for an explanation of the ₦6.93 trillion that was purportedly padded into the 2025 budget.
A non-governmental civic and transparency organization called BudgIT Nigeria was reported to have claimed that 11,122 projects totaling ₦6.93 trillion were added to the 2025 budget by the 10th National Assembly (NASS).
According to BudgIT, analysis revealed that 238 projects totaling more than ₦5 billion each, with a total value of ₦2 trillion, were added with little to no explanation.

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BudgIT claims that 1,119 projects ranging between ₦500 million and ₦1 billion, and 984 projects totaling ₦1.71 trillion, were arbitrarily added.

A closer examination revealed that 1,972 projects totaling ₦444.04 billion were allocated to senatorial districts while 3,573 projects totaling ₦653.19 billion were allocated directly to federal constituencies, according to the report released on Tuesday.
Baba-Ahmed remarked that NASS and the Presidency must explain to Nigerians how trillions were added to the budget in response to BudgIT’s findings.

Additionally, if the federal government believes that BudgIT’s report was fraudulent, he suggested that it sue the latter.

If BudgIT’s claims of trillions being added to the 2025 budget is untrue, then NSS and the Presidency ought to sue it. The other option is to acknowledge the validity of the published results. Regardless, the government ought to provide Nigerians with an explanation,” he said on his 𝕏 Twitter on Thursday.