Adaramodu said the passage of the votes and proceedings was to enable the National Assembly to transmit the fiscal document to the President for assent.
The budget was submitted to the National Assembly by President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday.
The two chambers instantly adjusted their standing rules to ensure that the bill passed the first and second reading on that day.
It was referred to the committees on appropriation in the two chambers and members had only Wednesday to study it and invite heads of ministries, departments, and agencies of the federal government to defend their estimates in the document.
Heads of the nation’s security agencies and the service chiefs were also attended to behind closed doors on the same day.
The committees presented their joint report at plenary in the two chambers the following day (Thursday) and it was deliberated upon and approved without contributions from members on the floor.
However, Ndume told journalists that the National Assembly accelerated the budget passage in the interest of the country.
He argued that the federal parliament was convinced that the items in the fiscal document would sufficiently cushion the current effects of fuel subsidy removal.
He also cited the need to pay the increment in workers’ salary, the take-off of the students’ loan scheme, and the need to ensure the smooth running of newly created ministries as reasons for the speedy passage of the bill.
He said: “The increase in the prices of fuel, costs of essential services and food items have gone up in the country following the withdrawal of fuel subsidy.
“Workers embarked on strike many times as a result of this and there were negotiations between the organised labour and the federal government.
“At the end of the negotiations, the labour and the federal government agreed that workers would be paid N35,000 in addition to their minimum wage.
“If N35,000 is paid to each of the over 1.5 million workers and the money is captured in the supplementary budget, it is imperative for us to approve it for immediate implementation.
