Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State on Tuesday claimed that President Muhammadu Buhari spends about $1 million of the country’s resources each time he embarks on foreign trips, regretting that previous foreign travels by the President is already bleeding the economy.

While advising the President to stay at home and govern rather than junketing from one country to the other, Fayose observed that most of the trips embarked on by the President were unnecessary, stressing that ministers or the Vice President could have represented the President at majority of the functions abroad.

According to a statement issued in Ado-Ekiti by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, the Governor stated, “the President should rather listen more to those of us who criticise him instead of those hailing every of his wrong steps either because of what they intend to gain or for fear of persecution.”

The statement read; “Conservatively, about $1 million goes into every
of the foreign trips and the way the President is going, foreign trips
alone might gulp 20 percent of the Federal Government budget and that
will be disastrous for the dwindling economy of the country.

“It is even more worrisome that while the economy is already in
shamble and insecurity pervades the land with Boko Haram burning
Nigerians, including children alive in the North East, our President
is busy globetrotting.

“From available records, in June 2015 alone, the President travelled
to Niger Republic, Chad, Germany and South Africa. Also in 2015, the
President travelled to United States of America in July, Benin
Republic in August, Ghana and France in September, India in October,
Iran, France and United States of America in November and in December,
he travelled to South Africa, Benin Republic.

“This year alone, President Buhari has travelled to the United Arab
Emirate, Kenya, Ethiopia and he is leaving for France and United
Kingdom today to spend four days abroad.

“In most of these trips, about $500,000 is spent on estacode,
transportation, accommodation, honorarium, media coverage, contingency
and other expenses on accompanying Presidency officials. The
Presidential Air Fleet, which includes fuelling of the planes and
allowances for crew members as well as the President’s estacode per
night and those of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and his aides is
said to be in the range of $500,000.

“Out of his eight months as President of Nigeria, two months have been
spent outside the country, and one wonders how a country like Nigeria
can progress with its president spending the better part of his time
abroad.

“Mr President is therefore advised to focus more on governing Nigeria
from home because foreign countries won’t solve our problems for us.
He should fulfil his promise of leading the fight against Boko Haram
from the front. Most importantly, the President should pay more
attention to the ailing economy of the country while he carries on
with genuine fight against corruption.”

Source: http://dailypost.ng/2016/02/02/buhari-spends-1m-on-each-foreign-trip-fayose/

Madness

Our governor has gone mad again

I think this traveling issue should be suspended for now let PMB start doing something apart from anticorruption crusade, let there be infrastructure and empower crusade.

Fayose is like a snake cut into two , he's trying to survive , but he's dead

e be like say metuh don handover to Fayose o

According to Fayose 'Mr president should pay more attention to those who criticise him instead of those who praises him for what ever decision he takes'.


Who wanna pay attention to wailers .