Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Thursday debunked claims by the National Assembly that he signed budgets without details while in power.
Mr. Obasanjo was president between 1999 and 2007.
The Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation, Abdulmimuni Jubril, had said that there were occasions when the former president signed budgets the federal legislature transmitted to him without seeing the details.
The lawmaker was explaining why the National Assembly recently sent the 2016 budgets it passed to President Muhammadu Buhari for his assent without accompanying details.
Mr. Buhari refused to sign the budget which details were subsequently sent to him Thursday.
Mr. Obasanjo, who was on a visit to Mr. Buhari, told journalists at the presidential villa that he was surprised by the lawmaker’s comment.
He said the legislature should be contacted again to prove the authenticity of its claim.
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