President Bola Ahmed Tinubu did not ask for a presidential yacht, Tope Ajayi, his spokesman, has said.

There has been outrage since details of the N2.1 trillion supplementary budget Tinubu submitted to the National Assembly were published.



According to the budget, N5.09 billion was allocated for the yacht, N2.9 billion for sport utility vehicles for the Presidential Villa, and another N2.9 billion for the replacement of operational vehicles for the presidency.


The yacht was listed under the Nigerian Navy’s proposed capital expenditure of N42.3 billion.


Reacting to the criticisms that have trailed the issue, Ajayi said he doubted if his principal needed one to perform the functions of his office.

“The trending issues on social media since yesterday are two items in the 2023 supplementary budget. One is the provision for a presidential yacht in the supplementary budget by the Navy and the other is over N6 billion for vehicles to the State House.”


“It is important to state clearly that President Bola Tinubu didn’t ask for a presidential yatch and I doubt he needs one to perform the functions of his office. From what I know, the request for a yacht, however it is named or couched in the budget is from the Navy and they must have operational reasons for why it is required.

“The budget office should be in a position to also explain to the public why such expenditure should be accommodated now, considering the economic situation of the country. I must readily admit that the one reason our budgeting system has been a subject of public attack is the very simplistic way some of the line items are described by civil servants, who prepare the budget. Examples abound. Sometimes in 2016, an Enterprise Resource Planning ( ERP) project of the Ministry of Solid Minerals worth over N300m then was captured in that year’s budget as “website”. Naturally, it generated a massive controversy as people, rightly, asked to know the type of website that will be built with N300million.


“It is important to say that journalism should enrich public enlightenment and not create an atmosphere of siege. It is poor reporting to always reduce State House budgetary provisions to the President and Vice President. When the State House makes provision for vehicles, it is reported as if it is the President that will use all the vehicles or eat all the food when a provision is made for food and catering services.


“We have had such inaccurate reporting in the past. A President and Vice President cannot, for any reason, spend N20 million naira to eat in a year if it is about the food they will eat as first and second families. How much food can a person really eat? Yet, we will read headlines that Tinubu, Buhari, Jonathan or whoever the President is wants to spend N5billion on food and catering in a year when in actual fact such budgetary provisions are made to accommodate many state events, meetings, hosting of VIPs, foreign dignitaries, and even visits by other Heads of State, and bilateral and multilateral meetings that the State House will deal with in a given year,” Ajayi wrote in a piece.

https://dailytrust.com/breaking-tinubu-didnt-ask-for-presidential-yacht-spokesman/

Glad that Tinubu spokespersons are better in clearing false reports .

Next step is to catch the dick heads in Navy who proposing presidential yacht since 2010 budget.

For headless mob , raving and ranting about spending billions of naira on food .Ajayi has clearly explained, if u read the full article.

Afterall German chancellor feeding when visiting Aso rock has to come from somewhere .

Nonsense. Then tell us who asked for the N5b Yacht in this current Tinubulation in the land.

Where are the agbado miscreants? Come and work for your 30k Stipend and defend another balablu bulaba nonsense.

It's called budget and estimation of proposed spending

Aso Rock Clinic had been budgeted for over a decade recorently but no provisions

Vice President Lodge and Legislative quaters are similar example


Tinubu doesn't even need a yatch as he can comfortably afford 10

Ok

Can the Budget office and the Navy tell us why we need a presidential yacht at this point of economic downturn

They will always deny, yet they will go ahead to use them. Same way Buhari said that presidential planes will be sold off. Believe their lies at the risk of your sound health.

What does the Navy need a yatcht for?Can a yatcht be use to fight oil bunkering or pirate?
That was how Buhari was signing billions of budget for Aso rock clinic every year that he didnt even go there to take panadol.
Every year Buhari paid billions of Naira for house rent in Aso rock.
Also,the ex president bought new kitchen utensils in Aso rock with billions of Naira every year.
He bought computers for Aso rock.
All na audio o.


Buhari really raped this country and Tinubu want to continue from where Buhari stopped.

EKONGKING:
Glad that Tinubu spokespersons are better in clearing false reports .

Next step is to catch the dick heads in Navy who proposing presidential yacht since 2010 budget.

For headless mob , raving and ranting about spending billions of naira on food .Ajayi has clearly explained, if u read the full article.

Afterall German chancellor feeding when visiting Aso rock has to come from somewhere .

Money that they want to divert into their offshore accounts.

Chicagograduate:
What does the Navy need a yatcht for?Can a yatcht be use to fight oil bunkering or pirate?

Ask Nlfpmod.

EKONGKING:
Glad that Tinubu spokespersons are better in clearing false reports .

Next step is to catch the dick heads in Navy who proposing presidential yacht since 2010 budget.

For headless mob , raving and ranting billions of naira on food .Ajayi has clearly explained, if u read the full article.

Afterall German chancellor feeding when visiting Aso rock has to come from somewhere .

EyeCumInPiss:
Nonsense. Then tell us who asked for the N5b Yacht in this current Tinubulation in the land.

Where are the agbado miscreants? Come and work for your 30k Stipend and defend another balablu bulaba nonsense.

Navy has been asking from Jonathan time 2010 onwards .
Headless mob will spin the narrative and blame Tinubu

Rubbish explanation. Tinubu received the document from budget office, read through it, sent it to senate, senate passes the budget, sent it back to tinubu to sign into law. Yet you are telling us tinubu is not aware. In other words, we have another buhari who signs anything placed on his table without going through it

Seconded

EyeCumInPiss:
Nonsense. Then tell us who asked for the N5b Yacht in this current Tinubulation in the land.

Where are the agbado miscreants? Come and work for your 30k Stipend and defend another balablu bulaba nonsense.

VERY GOOD. THE NAVY SHOULD CREATE A PRESIDENTIAL ACCOMMODATION AND RECEPTION CONVENIENCES FOR PRESIDENTIAL BUSINESSES ON THEIR FLEET.

What does the Navy need a yatcht for?Can a yatcht be use to fight oil bunkering or pirate?

EKONGKING:


Navy has been asking from Jonathan time from 2010 onwards .
Headless mob will spin the narrative and blame Tinubu

Shifting blames as usual

APC

nedu666:
Rubbish explanation. Tinubu received the document from budget office, read through it, sent it to senate, senate passes the budget, sent it back to tinubu to sign into law. Yet you are telling us tinubu is not aware. In other words, we have another buhari who signs anything placed on his table without going through it

He assented to it before transmission to NASS, so he didn't know what he signed.

but why president go get yatch abi navy for this hard time well the should continue miss using the currency as some one Nigerians the just go with the flow.

on a second thought may be the will use it for hosting foreign government in case the come visiting like the one the did with the German Chancellor It could have been a yatch.

EKONGKING:
Glad that Tinubu spokespersons are better in clearing false reports .

Next step is to catch the dick heads in Navy who proposing presidential yacht since 2010 budget.

For headless mob , raving and ranting about spending billions of naira on food .Ajayi has clearly explained, if u read the full article.

Afterall German chancellor feeding when visiting Aso rock has to come from somewhere .

Well done defender. I didn't know the German chancellor has been eating in Aso Rock since he arrived Nigeria. Thank you for informing us that even while he's in Lagos, they send his food to him via takeaway packs through Seyi.

As for the Navy yacht, your gods are usually quick to blame civil servants as if the budgets were not scrutinised and approved at FEC meetings before sending to NASS.
By the way, do you still have any corn left from the last one shared? Mine finished this morning and I need some for this afternoon. At least no one needed explanation for that one.
Werey gbogbo

iwaeda:
They will always deny, yet they will go ahead to use them. Same way Buhari said that presidential planes will be sold off. Believe their lies at the risk of your sound health.

U mean same way they denied salary increase for Tinubu and went ahead to increase it?

JagabanB:

U mean same way they denied salary increase for Tinubu and went ahead to increase it?

iwaeda:

You see that it's not always as u folks say it is right?

JagabanB:

You see that it's not always as u folks say it is right?

What is false.

Eediot, in defending the indefensible; you open up another question, "what does the Nigerian Navy need a Yatch for"?

iwaeda:

What is false.

Ask yourself.
U said they keep denying but will do it.
U gave an instance and I gave u an instance where they denied reports fabricated by u folks.
This statement is not a denial rather it's a clarification as to where we should demand explanations from.
Somehow, u moulded it into a denial.

Tinubu should be on top of things, these waste are too much, Nigerians are suffering.

JagabanB:

Ask yourself.
U said they keep denying but will do it.
U gave an instance and I gave u an instance where they denied reports fabricated by u folks.
This statement is not a denial rather it's a clarification as to where we should demand explanations from.
Somehow, u moulded it into a denial.

Did BAT not read what he signed, or was it Femi that need the yacht.

iwaeda:

Did BAT not read what he signed, or was it Femi that need the yacht.

Is it denial like are putting it?

Let me guess Seyi asked for the yatch

I weep for nigeria at times and weak nigerian that can't take matters into their own hands


How hard can it be to remove a sitting president??


In this digital age we are in??

Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. This is what PBAT is currently displaying.