Oshiomhole to NNPC: Tinubu Doesn’t Delegate Finance Officer to Present Budget

Edo North Senator, Adams Oshiomhole, has said President Bola Tinubu does not delegate officers to present an annual budget at the National Assembly.

Oshiomhole made the remark while noting that the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, thinks it’s bigger than the system.

Addressing a committee hearing at the National Assembly, Oshiomhole said the NNPCL seems to forget that it’s an agency of government.

He said: “Even the president of Nigeria, Bola Tinubu, does not delegate his finance officer to present annual budget which is prepared by financial gurus because we have three independent arms of government.

“So if Tinubu will leave the Villa to address the Senate President and Chairman of the legislative arm, senators, and the House of Representatives; I have issues why NNPC thinks it is too big, they are bedridden, they have medical certificates, may they not be bedridden for too long so that the country can move on.

“I think the NNPCL is forgetting that it is an agency of government, while we are representatives of the people.

“You cannot behave as if you’re above the representatives of the people. I refuse to believe that the NNPCL is bigger than the system.”