Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said his visit to President<\/p>\n
Olusegun Obansanjo at the Presidential Villa on Thursday was primarily to
\nshare his experience with President Mohammadu Buhari.<\/p>\n
Obasanjo also on Thursday dismissed claim that he signed appropriation
\nbills into law without sighting the details under his tenure.<\/p>\n
When President Muhammadu Buhari insisted on receiving the details of the
\n2016 Budget before signing the bill into law, some members of the House of
\nRepresentatives had claimed that Obasanjo and the late former President
\nUmaru Musa Yar\u2019Adua signed appropriation bills into law without receiving
\nthe budget details.<\/p>\n
Fielding questions from State House correspondents after meeting with
\nPresident Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, Obasanjo dismissed the
\nclaim.<\/p>\n
He replied the question with: \u201cEh en? I signed budget without details?
\nAnybody who told you that, go and ask him again.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked to speak on the 2016 Budget, he said: \u201cBefore I will be able to tell
\nyou something about the budget, I have to read it and know what it
\ncontains and know what to talk about.<\/p>\n
On the delay in signing the budget, he said the constitution allows the
\nexecutive to continue with the budget provided it does not go beyond the
\nprevious year\u2019s budget up to the middle of the year.<\/p>\n
Obasanjo, however declined to speak on corruption war, saying: \u201cEh en?\u201d<\/p>\n
When he was asked to speak specifically on the travail of the Senate
\nPresident, Bukola Saraki, Obasanjo said: \u201cEh en? What is wrong with him?\u201d<\/p>\n
On the purpose of visit to the Villa, he said: \u201cYou know that not too long
\nago, I was out there. I have come to share some of my experiences with
\nhim.<\/p>\n
When asked to speak on the experiences, he said: \u201cHa! Ha! If I say I
\nshared experiences with my wife, you will ask me wetin I talk with my
\nwife?\u201d<\/p>\n
Obasanjo, who arrived the Villa at 12:13pm in a tinted black Tayota Jeep
\nmarked ABJ 425 PY, exchanged pleasantries with journalists who cracked
\njoke with him on his \u201cdancing steps\u201d during the burial of Ebonyi State
\nGovernor\u2019s mother last week.<\/p>\n
When reminded that his dancing steps were great, he replied: \u201cSo you don\u2019t
\nwant me to dance.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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