The Senate President, Senator Godswill Akpabio on Thursday said any head of Ministries, Departments and Agencies who refuse to attend ongoing interactive sessions on projections made in the 2024–2026 Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper should be shown the way out by President Bola Tinubu.
Akpabio, who spoke at the opening of the interactive session jointly organised by Senate Committees on Finance, Appropriations, National Planning, and Local and Foreign Debts, emphasised that any head of an agency who refuses to attend the session should be sacked by the President.
Akpabio said, “If you don’t plan how to succeed then you have planned to fail. I, therefore, remind our committee that any serious appointee or any head of any agency that is interested in the success of President Bola Tinubu’s administration ought to be here.
“The Chairman of finance committee should give me the list of all the heads of agencies that you invited who have failed to show up in this session, this is the beginning of their failure in their various offices.
“Any head of agency that sends representation here is not a serious person and therefore, the President must take a second look at such a person’s appointment.
“It is not a threat but the truth. I shelved even my appointment to appear in Owerri today for the final rally of my party and all other schedules that I have to make sure that I appear so that we can strategise on how we can succeed” he said.
The Senate President also noted that borrowings for Nigeria cannot be totally avoided, but the current trend cannot be sustained.
