The 2021 presidency expenditure has been pegged by the Federal Government at N10 billion.
This amount is a downward revision of the 2020 budget which was at N15.3 billion and was announced by Attah Esa, Deputy Director of Information, State House yesterday.
The 2021 budget has taken into consideration the policies and strategies of the 2021-2023 Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper.
Esa explained that ‘Citing a September 1, 2020 circular issued by the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, the Permanent Secretary, State House, said MDAs had been directed to work assiduously to conclude the budget bilateral meetings as scheduled in order to get the 2021 budget ready for transmission to the National Assembly’.
