Drama as Fayose presents 2017 budget in military outfit • says he's heading to mountain December 14 for prayers

The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, on Tuesday presented a N93.4bn Budget for 2017 tagged, “Budget of Higher Height” to the state House of Assembly in Ado Ekiti.

The governor also announced that he would go to the mountain to pray on December 14 and return on December 21 with predictions for Nigeria. He  noted that almost all his predictions for 2016 had come to pass.

The governor, who was clad in a military camouflage while presenting the budget to the lawmakers, said that the recurrent expenditure for the 2017 appropriation bill was N55.02bn which is 59 per cent of the budget, while capital expenditure was N38.42 bn or 41 per cent of the estimates.

The budget is 33 per cent higher than the N70.5bn presented for 2016.

The governor explained that the increment was due to the economic recession and the high exchange rate of the naira to the US dollar.

However, there was a mild drama during the presentation when Fayose said he was the one in charge at the assembly and that the Speaker, Kola Oluwawole, was only holding brief for him.

He said, “I’m the Speaker, he (Oluwawole) is on that seat on my behalf. He is the Acting Speaker, therefore, he cannot be wrong.  If he is wrong, we will take it to the Government House and resolve it. Therefore, I will pass the budget myself.”