The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Udoma Udo Udoma, said on Wednesday that President Muhammadu Buhari is yet to receive the 2018 Budget recently passed by the National Assembly.
The two chambers of the National Assembly passed the budget last week.
Briefing State House correspondents at the end of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting chaired by President Buhari, Udoma said the Executive arm of government is ready to work very fast on the budget as soon as it is received from the lawmakers.
The Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, said if not for the immunity the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, enjoys, he would have been invited over his allegation that the Federal government was planning to assassinate him.
Mohammed said: “On the allegation raised by the governor of Rivers that he has information that he would be assassinated by the federal government.
“I think one of the good things on being a governor is that you enjoy immunity from prosecution and arrest. Because I remember that few years ago when I made similar allegations I was invited to the Force Headquarters.”