Group out to smear National Assembly, says Senate spokesman

The Senate yesterday denied inserting projects estimated at N6.93 trillion into this year’s Federal Government’s budget.
The Red Chamber described BudgIT’s allegation of budget padding as a smear campaign.
Reaction to the allegation through a statement yesterday in Abuja, Senate’s spokesman Adeyemi Adaramodu urged the organisation to find something meaning to engage their time.
Adaramodu said: “The 2025 Appropriation Bill was presented by the Executive and was interrogated and passed based on the exact amount presented.
“The dark angels of falsehood and public discord are only interested in stirring disaffection against the National Assembly.
“For a long time, there has been a lull in their sordid trade of irreverent propaganda, hence a resort to the latest spurious allegation of budget padding.
“We advise that all these ubiquitous but ludicrous political ball-boys should engage with patriotic and truthful endeavours.”