Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki has said he is not against the emergence of a mega party in Nigeria as long as it is aimed at moving the country forward.
Saraki said this while speaking on a monitored television programme.
In His words:“If the mega party will see us pushing Nigeria’s economy forward, I don’t have problem. Like I have said to many people, my focus now is on the economy.”
TheNewsGuru.com reports that Saraki’s comment is coming at a time when the proposed formation of a mega party to oust the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC is pressing home.
Admitting that his party, APC made some mistakes on assumption of power, Saraki said: “It’s been tough. There are many things we should have done differently; we didn’t manage the success well in the early stage. But it’s a learning curve.
“Here is a party that hasn’t been in power for so many years. But we are making progress. I mean look at the budget process. Compare now to last year, you will see that the process is better, and it’s going to get better as we go on.”
He also assured that the upper legislative chambers would not delay in the passage of the 2017 budget.
“We are going to put everything in place, we will back in the 21st, hopefully by then reports will start coming in, plus or minus three weeks by the time we come back.
“The national assembly will open up its budget in 2017, yes in my own time,” he said.