FG running 3 budgets, implementing none – ADC
The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has described the All Progressives Congress, APC led federal government as “the most incompetent” in Nigerian history, citing, “fiscal confusion and the several policy and appointment flip-flops” as evidence. The ADC in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, said the government’s obsession with the politics of […]
The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has described the All Progressives Congress, APC led federal government as “the most incompetent” in Nigerian history, citing, “fiscal confusion and the several policy and appointment flip-flops” as evidence.
The ADC in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, said the government’s obsession with the politics of re-election, at the “detriment of governance, has done incalculable damage to the country in a manner not seen before.”
The coalition party noted that recent reports that “signify utter confusion and a historic level of incompetence in the President Bola Tinubu administration’s implementation in national budgets since 2024” is a cause for concern, adding this is the first time in Nigerian history that any government would be running three budgets at the same time while implementing none.
According to the ADC, “available reports indicate that while the 2024 budget was rolled over to 2025, as at the third quarter of 2025 only 17.7% of the capital budget had been released, while overall implementation hovered at less than 30%, even as internal disbursements continued to lag.
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“Even as we speak, 30% of the 2025 budget is billed to run from February 2026 to November 30, 2026, while the remaining 70% is simply rolled over to the 2026 budget, which is still being debated at the National Assembly three months into the year. This situation becomes even more alarming when we recall that President Tinubu promised last year that all capital components of the 2024 and 2025 budgets would be concluded by March 31, 2026, less than a month away, knowing quite well that this is not possible.”
ADC explained that capital budget implementation for the Ministry of Power stands at a “mere 3.6%, that of Communications Technology at 8.9%, while Education and Health stand at 23.5% and 32.5% respectively.
Certainly, no serious government would leave these sectors, which are crucial to national human capital development, largely unfunded while select government officials continue to live in obscene opulence in the midst of unprecedented poverty and human misery.
“It is noteworthy that the only ministry that has outperformed its budget, up to 113.45%, is the Ministry of Defence, largely due to emergency funding through the inscrutable Service-Wide Vote. Yet, rather than abate, insecurity has continued to spread across the country. Recent reports indicate that in this month of Ramadan alone, up to 500 Nigerians may have been killed by terrorists in Borno, Yobe, Adamawa, and Kebbi.