Senate set to pass 2022 appropriation bill today

Barring last minute changes, the Senate will pass the 2022 appropriation bill on Tuesday (today), Chairman of the Senate Appropriation Committee, Barau Jibrin, confirmed this on Monday after a meeting with Mahmood Yakubu, chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Barau said the bill had not been laid because his committee was waiting for the electoral commission to provide details of what it would need for the forthcoming general election.
The chairman said the bill would be laid and considered on Tuesday.
He said, “The presentation and consideration will be tomorrow. We have been waiting for them [INEC] and they have given the detailed information of what they need.
“We are proceeding to put together our report for onward submission to the plenary tomorrow [Tuesday]. We are presenting it tomorrow and it is going to be considered tomorrow as well by the grace of God.”
During the meeting with members of the appropriation committee, Yakubu said the commission would need over N300bn for the 2023 general election and some bye-elections in 2022.
In October, President Muhammadu Buhari presented an expenditure of the federal government in the 2022 fiscal year as N16.45tn.
But the Senate Committee on Finance pegged the Federal Government’s total expenditure at N16.39 trillion, reducing what the president sent by N60 billion.
Also, Buhari had pegged the fiscal deficit at N692.0 billion, but the senate put it at N635.4 billion.