The Oyo state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Thursday faulted the N679 billion budget proposal for 2025 presented Wednesday by Governor Seyi Makinde to the state House of Assembly.
The party in a statement in Ibadan by its publicity secretary, Olawale Sadare, described the budget proposal as “another fictitious document prepared to further enrich a few individuals within the corridors of power.”
The statement said, “the appropriation document was far from being a Budget of Economic Stabilization which the governor tagged it.”
Oyo APC claimed that the budget presentation was “just a ceremony aimed at fulfilling all righteousness as Governor Makinde did not carry any of the relevant stakeholders along in its preparation while he would not make use of the Appropriation Bill upon its passage by the lawmakers.
“Experts have had reasons to ask questions on the values which annual budgetary rituals have added to the socio-economic and infrastructural development of Oyo state in the last five years.
“As far as Oyo APC is concerned, the claim by Governor Makinde that the 2025 Budget Proposal had the input of the people of the state is false even as we challenge him to come out clean on the specific projects which would gulp the 51 per center of the total N679 billion.
“Also, we have expected him (Makinde) to quote the exact period which workers should expect the commencement of the payment of the N80, 000 minimum wage which he announced recently as well as the monthly total of the state wage bill to justify the amount quoted as recurrent expenditure in the 2025 Budget.”