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Adams Oshiomhole, national chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC), says he hopes the national assembly will not distort the 2019 appropriation bill presented by President Muhammadu Buhari.

Buhari presented the N8.6 trillion budget to a joint session of the national assembly on Wednesday.

Oshiomhole described Buhari’s presentation of the budget as “a successful outing.”

“I think it was done very well and analytically well presented. It covers all the issues,” Oshiomhole said.

“It gives account of the previous budget, how it was implemented and why we will have to consolidate going forward. I think it was a successful outing.

“I’m impressed, I’m excited and I pray that the national assembly will not distort it in a way that will distort the tenet, well-thought-out outcome.”

On the rowdiness during the budget presentation, Oshiomhole said: “I think the lawmakers generally agreed that the budget was good.

“All the requirements of the law have been met, namely, to lay the budget. How the senators behaved thereafter is their privilege.”

In June, when he signed the 2018 budget into law, the president accused the lawmakers of adding N14.5 billion and 6,403 projects of their own to the proposal sent to them.

Buhari said the projects added by the national assembly would be difficult to execute.