President Bola Tinubu has moved the N47.9tn 2025 budget presentation to the joint session of the National Assembly to Wednesday, December 18.
The presentation was earlier fixed for Tuesday, December 17.
An official statement on the postponement should be issued within the next few hours.
The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, had, during the announcement at the Thursday plenary, announced that President Tinubu will present the 2025 budget on Tuesday.
He said, “The president has made his intention known to the National Assembly to present the 2025 budget to the joint Assembly of the National Assembly on the 17th of December, 2024.”
Akpabio announced that the budget presentation will occur at the House of Representatives Chamber.
He further informed the lawmakers that plenary will be at 10:30 am to allow senators to meet in the Red Chamber before moving in procession to the House of Representatives chamber where the budget will be presented.