Lagos state chapter of the Peoples Democratic
Party, PDP, has alleged that the state government
spent N3.2bn in preparing for the visit of
President Muhammadu Buhari, who turned out to
be represented by the Vice President, Yemi
Osinbajo, in the working visit to the state on
Monday.
Buhari was scheduled to commission various
projects embarked upon by Governor Akinwunmi
Ambode, but this was carried out on his behalf by
Osinbajo.
Reacting to the development, the PDP said the
purported preparation for the visit of President
Buhari to Lagos State was “a fraud and another
expose that the APC is too haphazard in
governance, hence the total disconnect between
the state governor and the Presidency, thereby
causing the state not to know that the president
had changed his mind on visiting the state.”
In a statement issued yesterday by its publicity
secretary, Taofiq Gani, the party insisted that
Ambode must account for the over N3.2 billion
claimed to have been expended in what it called
“botched visit of the president”, stressing that it
was a mismanagement of public funds,
misplacement of priority and propaganda to have
invited the presidency “to commission ordinary
rehabilitation of roads, which are not even more
than seven in a state with 245 Wards.”
According to the statement, “We demand that
the over N3.2bn claimed to have been spent to
welcome the president to Lagos must be
accounted for. The beneficiaries of the contracts
and the costs of the contracts involved in the
ceremonies must be made public for Lagosians to
know. This is needless waste of public funds.”

olatunji21:
If Ambode spent #3.2bn just to welcome the President, then i can conclude he's another Ineffectual buffoon...

iflywithbuhari:
Ambode should show us his books, and PDP should show us their proof. It's as simple as that