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Rabiu Kwankwaso Visits Abdul Ningi (Photos)
<p><img width="524" height="388" src="https://www.naijanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/kwankwaso-and-ningi.jpg" class="attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="Rabiu Kwankwaso Visits Abdul Ningi (Photos)" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" srcset="https://www.naijanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/kwankwaso-and-ningi.jpg 524w, https://www.naijanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/kwankwaso-and-ningi-300x222.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 524px) 100vw, 524px" /></p> <h2>A former Governor of Kano State and chieftain of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso on Monday, paid a solidarity visit to Senator Abdul Ahmed Ningi.</h2> <p>Ningi, who represents Bauchi Central in the upper chamber of the National Assembly, was recently suspended over his claims of an N3.7 trillion padding of the 2024 budget.</p> <p>Below are pictures from the visit.</p> <p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-836553" src="https://www.naijanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/kwankwaso-visits-ningi-2.jpg" alt="" width="509" height="960" /> <img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-836554" src="https://www.naijanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/kwankwaso-visits-ningi.jpg" alt="" width="768" height="1024" /></p> <h2 class="mvp-post-title left entry-title">What I Told Ningi When He Brought The Budget Padding Issue To Me – Ndume</h2> <p>The Chief Whip of the Senate, Ali Ndume, has <strong><a href="https://www.naijanews.com/2024/03/14/what-i-told-ningi-when-he-brought-the-budget-padding-issue-to-me-ndume/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">disclosed</a></strong> that he warned his colleague, Abdul Ningi on the allegation that the 2024 budget was padded by over N3 trillion.</p> <p>Ndume said he told Ningi to seek a consultant to analyse the budget.</p> <p>However, he stated that Ningi refused to listen to him.</p> <p>Recall that, Ningi who represents Bauchi Central at the Senate, was on Tuesday <strong><a href="https://www.naijanews.com/2024/03/12/breaking-senate-suspends-senator-ningi-for-three-months/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suspended for three months</a></strong> over claims of budget padding.</p> <p>Reacting to the development during an appearance on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Wednesday, Ndume insisted that the suspended Bauchi senator was wrong with his claim.</p> <p>Ndume said Ningi was trying to make 2024 project an ethnic and political issue, which according to him is wrong.</p> <p>The Senate Chief Whip said that when Ningi first presented the case to him, he told him to provide evidence which he could not.</p> <p>He insisted that as a senior member of the Senate, he can attest to the fact that the North was not shortchanged by the South in the budget as claimed by Ningi.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.naijanews.com/2024/03/18/rabiu-kwankwaso-visits-abdul-ningi-photos/">Rabiu Kwankwaso Visits Abdul Ningi (Photos)</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.naijanews.com">Naija News</a>.</p>
