he Peoples Democratic Party in Edo State has opposed the N7bn allegedly allocated to Governor Godwin Obaseki for foreign trips in the state’s 2019 budget.

The state chairman of the PDP, Chief Dan Orbih, said this a during a campaign rally held on Friday in Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of the state.

He described the travel allowance as a misplaced priority.

Orbih alleged that Obaseki legitimised corruption under the guise of attracting foreign investors to the state in the face of worsening economic challenges.

He said, “In this year alone, he (Obaseki) has provided N7bn for foreign trips. He says he is looking for foreign investors to come to the state. He (Obaseki) travelled to Malaysia, Indonesia, China, etc, looking for foreign investors and he came back with nothing.”
https://punchng.com/pdp-rejects-n7bn-budget-for-obasekis-foreign-trips/

Small money, y dem dey complain?

Two FTCs in a day!!!

Dis feels great aswear

Another method of emblezzment...

Mheen! Nigeria is a joke honestly. Is he traveling with the whole Civil servants ni?

Check my signature for air shipping from Nigeria to UK and all European countries.

Party of saints..:::saint obaseki

This early morning..

What did I just read...7billi for what exactly ??
APC have finished us in dis God forsaken country....

And we wonder y we don't move forward as a country.

This is outrageous na, how do you come from a very poor family and act like son of a rich man. Nigeria is complaining and the president is saying austerity, yet a governor is living flamboyantly, horrible leaders up and down.....

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Thiefs..PDP isn't better either but Apc is a complete disaster.
In 3+ years,Apc has overtaken PDS's 16years of alleged corruption.Adiok ano Apc

Infact,like for Pdp and share for Uncommon looters.

Pdp can ever stop amusing me. Are u the one to tell apc how to spend their money or how to offer the state the leadership required?
Wait for your time.

And they would say minimum wage cannot be paid...... N30, 000 to start with is a rip off figure.......

How many foreign investors has he managed to pull in so far and how much have they invested to justify this figure?....


Nigeria is in BIG BIG TROUBLE...........

Dan Orbih and PDP should go and expunge that line item from the budget na...

It was an okay deal during his party's reign when funds were budgeted for travels and shared amongst themselves with no trips made as proposed.

They haven't cried yet...no more free or share the money. We have vast fallow lands in Edo. You guys should go farming and get productive for once.


NB
My comment above is not to justify the amount budgeted as right or wrong using PDP's tenure as a yard stick, it is simply to say that, while the same budget provisions were made in the PDP era the purposes for which such provisions were made which in this case is for International travels to attract foreign investors were zilch and instead the monies shared amongst themselves. With this present administration, do well to find anyone following Edo and it's politics, you'd find an unbiased review on how the present administration is like none before it and ably commandeered by a man who knows his onions and a strict administrator.

Wow

APC na so the anti corruption reach?

Bunch of hungry thieves

gaby:
Dan Orbih and PDP should go and expunge that line item from the budget na...

It was an okay deal during his party's reign when funds were budgeted for travels and shared amongst themselves with no trips made as proposed.

They haven't cried yet...no more free or share the money. We have vast fallow lands in Edo. You guys should go farming and get productive for once.

Two wrongs don't make a right. Didn't APC promise change?why are they replicating the same thing PDP did?

Okay

litdutchboy:

Two wrongs don't make a right. Didn't APC promise change?why are they replicating the same thing PDP did?

Plus he has not even told us how much PDP spent on something similar (adjusting for inflation since then). So we can compare.

Edo Sate cannot afford over £14 million (fourteen million Pounds) on gallivanting per year. Not possible.

7 billion SMH for this country

7billion?? God forsaken lousy country!

This people should fear God na; how do someone spend 7 billion naira on foreign trips in one year That means he would be spending over 19 million naira daily on foreign trips

1972xy:
Pdp can ever stop amusing me. Are u the one to tell apc how to spend their money or how to offer the state the leadership required?
Wait for your time.

Sense is far from u

gaby:
Dan Orbih and PDP should go and expunge that line item from the budget na...

It was an okay deal during his party's reign when funds were budgeted for travels and shared amongst themselves with no trips made as proposed.

They haven't cried yet...no more free or share the money. We have vast fallow lands in Edo. You guys should go farming and get productive for once.

Lolz..... Have always said it.... We are our own problems...... How can someone think like this?

Nigeria is really far from civilization

Hope you have a functional brain or is it among the ones APC told us that PDP looted?

1972xy:
Pdp can ever stop amusing me. Are u the one to tell apc how to spend their money or how to offer the state the leadership required?
Wait for your time.

https://punchng.com/pdp-rejects-n7bn-budget-for-obasekis-foreign-trips/[/quote]

Abeg how much is the flight ticket for 20 people
How much is the visa application fees
How much is hotel fees.
Is he going there to bribe the investors to come and do business by all means. APC have wrecked this country finaces finish. That money will be useful for the elections 19. Am just guessing���

Na PDP want pay the money?

While they are so many dilapidated schools, hospitals, roads etc that needs to be fixed, if it is the truth.

litdutchboy:

Two wrongs don't make a right. Didn't APC promise change?why are they replicating the same thing PDP did?

Exactly

Exactly

Colonelswitz101:
What did I just read...7billi for what exactly ??
APC have finished us in dis God forsaken country....

At least now u no y they can't pay minimum wage

1972xy:
Pdp can ever stop amusing me. [b]Are u the one to tell apc how to spend their money [/b]or how to offer the state the leadership required?
Wait for your time.

So d 7b in question is APCs money?