The Cross River North Senator, Jarigbe Agom Jarigbe, on Sunday, abandoned a live TV interview midway over the subject of the 2024 Budget in order to avoid ‘wahala’.
Jarigbe, on Sunday, was a remote guest on Arise News and one of the anchors had taken him on the details of the 2024 Budget. Drama, however, ensued when the lawmaker said he did not scrutinise the budget line by line to which the female anchor reacted by saying that it was ‘fascinating’ that the Senator didn’t familiarise himself with the details of the budget, which she had done.
Apparently embarrassed, Senator Jarigbe asked the TV anchor to tell him the details of the budgetary provisions for her senatorial district, to which the anchor replied that she did not have the ‘arithmetic’ but only scrutinised the budget on the basis of Ministry by Ministry.
Thereafter, the senator was questioned concerning the CNG appropriation in the 2024 budget.
At that point, Senator Jarigbe quid in saying, “Come oh, what is this budget, budget talk nah? I want to talk about my thanksgiving and representation to my people, you people are doing budget, budget, I will walk away oh. You people want me to say something that I will go and face wahala, you should allow me oh, let me serve my people quietly.”
The connection to Senator Jarigbe was thereafter lost.
Recall that, in March, the Bauchi Central Senator, Abdul Ningi, was suspended by the Senate over his claims during a radio interview that there were no details and locations for about N3 trillion projects in the 2024 budget, among others, alleging an illegal budget padding.