Ndume who spoke with journalists in Abuja said the budget passage was not suspended indefinitely but that it would be passed before the end of March being the deadline for the implementation of the 2015 budget.
He said that it was the wish of the National Assembly to pass the budget on February 25 but which was not possible due to some errors, discovered by the federal parliamentarians at their different committees.
He however assured Nigerians that the National Assembly would ensure that all errors and differences were corrected before passage.
He said, "We have not postponed it (passage of the budget) indefinitely. What we are saying is that with the developments that we are seeing, the 25th February deadline we gave ourselves may not be realistic.
"That is why we now said that going by this, it is not possible to say we will come back on 25th and say this is the budget, but we are not saying that we have suspended it indefinitely.
The reason we fixed 25th was because we wanted
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