The Peoples Democratic Party has
asked President Muhammadu Buhari to explain the source of funding of the office
of the first day being occupied by Aisha, his wife.
In a statement on Thursday, the
party also asked Buhari to explain the rationale behind the office despite his
promise to scrap it.
The party said the current
administration is “extremely expensive” and urged the president to cut down
cost of governance within the presidency and not through “cosmetic” means.
The party was reacting to new
directives issued to senior government officials by the president including
slashing of their estacodes.
Kola Ologbondiyan, PDP spokesman,
said while Buhari claims to reduce cost of governance, the presidency drains
Nigeria’s valuable resources.
Ologbondiyan said: “While the PDP
is still monitoring the implementation of directive to government functionaries
on cost cut, the party tasks President Buhari to take the first step by
immediately fulfilling his promise to reduce the Presidential fleet, as well as
cut his over-bloated entourages and curtail the opulent lifestyle in the
Presidency, which is daily flaunted before suffering and impoverished
Nigerians.
“We invite Nigerians to note that
the Buhari Presidency has proven to be extremely expensive and a major draining
pipe for valuable resources, while millions of compatriots, who look up to
government for solutions, wallow in hunger and acute poverty.
“The profligacy that permeates
the Buhari Presidency had further manifested in the public fight between the
First Lady, Aisha Buhari, and President Buhari’s nephews over issues of opulent
accommodation in our presidential villa.”
The president recently approved
the appointments of six aides for the office of the first lady.
The main opposition party also
accused the president of failing to disclose the details of the presidency’s
budget “despite demands by our party and other well-meaning groups in Nigeria.”
“The failure to make the details
of the Presidency budget public places a huge burden on the Buhari Presidency,
particularly in the face of allegations of budgetary corruption and financial
sleaze,” it said.
“Unless the Presidency budget is
made public for Nigerians to see, any directive on cost cut remains cosmetic.”
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