- Femi Falana advised acting president, Professor Osinbajo, not to sign the 2017 budget

The rights activist said President Buhari could not function before writing to the National Assembly

- He said the National Assembly had no right to increase its budget

Human rights activist, Femi Falana, has the acting president, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, advised not to sign the 2017 budgets sent to him by the National Assembly.

The Punch reported that Falana spoke in Ilorin during a colloquium organized by the Movement for Own Change to mark the 50th anniversary of the creation of Kwara State.
He also said that President Muhammadu Buhari did not have the power to sign the bill in the law, as he was on vacation.

He said the president could not exercise power before sending another letter to the National Assembly.

He said: "The President is not authorized to sign a law while on vacation. The constitution did not suggest that a president on a vacation and an acting president who had a power of attorney for Him is not, at the same time, will exercise presidential powers.

"To the extent, in anticipation of the resumption of duties by President Buhari, the acting president, Prof. Osinbajo, is competent to sign all accounts accepted by the NASS.

"If President Buhari did not exercise powers during his vacation, even though he was in the country, why would he want to do it while on medical vacation abroad?

"Instead of spreading energy over the power of an appropriation account entered into by the Acting President, Nigerians must review the 2017 budget.

"We therefore appeal to the acting president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, who is a professor in law not to endorse the illegal warrant of 2017 in the law."

Falana said the National Assembly had no right to increase its budget and urged the acting president to see it properly.

"The enemies of democracy are trying desperately to exploit President Buhari's ill health to shorten the democratic dispensation.

"Nevertheless, the shining shortcomings of the brutal democratic process must allow people to benefit from democratic structures to take their political destiny into their own. On their own, the political class must stop in the hands of potential state plots To play.

"While the decision of the army chief to observe the nation of the devil's plot is being appreciated, the authorities must continue to fish out the conquesters and their civilian collaborators with the purpose of trying to find out for traitor crimes."

Chief Ayo Opadokun, who also spoke at the meeting, agreed with Falana on the budget.

He said: "The legislature does not have the legal authority to increase the budget, because they are not those who will investigate the income that will come in and they are not the one who exports it."