Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Hon Femi Gbajabiamila, has appealed to Nigerians not to blame President Muhammadu Buhari for the 2016 budget controversy, but to hold civil servants liable.

Speaking at his office in Abuja while receiving leaders of the
National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, Gbajabiamila said,
“I’m going to absolve the President, but I’m not going to absolve the
people that put it in. Why I absolved the President, I will tell you.

“The job was done by civil servants, it has always been done by them.


“The President does not sit in a ministry, he doesn’t know what’s going on there or what they need or do not need.

“The argument will be that the buck stops at his desk and he must take
responsibility, I agree with that. But the point is that he delegated responsibilities. Under the constitution, he has the right to delegate
his work to ministers. And he delegated the issue of budget and
planning to the minister of Budget and Planning,” Gbajabiamila said.