2026: Mbah presents ‘Renewed Momentum and Optimism’ budget proposal of N1.62trn to Assembly

Peter Ndubuisi Mbah, Enugu State governor, has presented a budget proposal of ₦1.62 trillion for the 2026 fiscal year to the State House of Assembly.

The budget, which was tagged ‘Renewed Momentum and Optimism’ marked a very
high fiscal push aimed at accelerating infrastructure delivery, social services and economic expansion across the state.

Mbah, while presenting the proposal to the house on Tuesday, said that the total budget size of 1.6 2 trillion naira represents a 66.5% 66.5% increase in the 2025 fiscal budget.

According to the governor, the budget will be funded through a combination of N870 billion in Internally Generated Revenue (IGR), and expected a total of N387 billion from the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) and N329 billion from capital receipts, including development financing and partnerships

“We expect our personnel cost to increase to N149 billion. And I’m sure if you look at where we were last year on personnel, what we’re doing this year is basically twice more than what we had in our personnel cost, and the logic is simple. I mean, you cannot expect to use the same workforce you used to execute a project size of N200 billion to do a project size of a trillion.

“So, we’re going to be increasing our workforce by increasing our manpower so that we have enough human resources that will essentially deliver on these projects our overhead also would be about 120 billion naira. Our consolidated revenue fund will be about 50 billion naira. So, our total recurrent spend would be about 321 billion which constitutes a total of 20% of our budget.

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“Our capital expenditure would be about 1.3 trillion, and to the specific 1,296,000,000,000 naira, again, constituting about 80% of our total budget. That brings the total budget size to 1,617,000,000,003 97 trillion,” he said.

He noted that the spending plan will prioritise infrastructure renewal, education, healthcare, water supply, technology, job creation, and security—areas which are essential to achieving the administration’s long-term development blueprint.

The governor said his administration would be constructing 5 new bus terminals at 9th Mile, 4 corner, Udi, Awgu and Obollor Afor as well as the procurement of 14 new additional aircrafts for Enugu air.

The governor said that the high capital allocation was deliberate.

“It reflects the scale of work ahead and our administration to sustain and accelerate the growth momentum across all the major sector that we have talked about so it reflects our administration resolve to achieve that, and he gave a snippet of the sectoral breakdown to include 8% of the total budget for administrative sector, which is about 128 billion, the economic sector is allocated 51% of the total budget, bringing it to 825 billion. The law and justice sector will take 15 billion, bringing it to 1.54% of the total budget.

“The Regional sector will take two 2 billion, bringing it to 0.17% and the social service sector will take 40.1% bringing it to 644 billion. In simple terms, 2026. Is the year. Not Enugu moves from building foundations to delivering impacts at scale, and now allow me to present the changes this budget will support the economic sector. We are locating 868 billion, representing 61.1% of the capital expenditure to the economic sector.”