Tinubu request Senate approval for increase in 2026 budget by N9tr

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President Bola Tinubu has requested the Senate approval for an upward review of the 2026 appropriation bill.

The President made the request in a letter addressed to the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, and read at the plenary on Tuesday in Abuja.

Tinubu, in the letter, proposed an increase of N9 trillion to raise the total budget from N58.4 trillion to N67.4 trillion.

The President said the request was aimed at strengthening fiscal transparency to ensure effective implementation of priority national programmes.

Tinubu listed the three key objectives for the request to include regularisation and account for outstanding legacy commitments from previous appropriation cycles.

This, he said, was to prevent the projects from burdening the execution of 2026 budget.

Tinubu said the proposal sought to consolidate and properly capture existing government’s indebtedness within the fiscal framework, while making provision for a limited number of strategic and priority projects.

“Thirdly, it aims to align the 2026 financing plan with revised expenditure in a manner that preserves macro-fiscal stability and reduces pressure on the domestic financial market,” he stated.

Akpabio, thereafter, referred the request to the Committee on Appropriation for further legislative input and to revert to plenary in the coming days.

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