eddie7:
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.

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iwaeda:

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iwaeda:
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.



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/

The yacht was listed under the Nigerian Navy’s proposed capital expenditure of N42.3 billion.
look at this idiots,they trying to repair their bad image.So they mean CNS want a yatch for himself in d Navy?we all know its d airforce that handles manages presidential jets so also its Navy that will handle Tinubu yatch.
Nigerian Navy can never request for a yatch xcept it came from presidency.

Na the chief of naval staff wan cruise the yatch

They discussed among themselves to put it under navy budget and I am sure they will say NIGERIANS will rant and keep quiet, nothing will happen.

Clown everywhere defending nonsense. So Nigerians don't understand what yacht means? If the president does not need it why then did they include it in the budget? It's not too late to expunge it from the budget and stop fooling yourselves

eddie7:


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iwaeda:

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

The president doesn't assent to anything until it's passed by the national assembly. The budget estimates went from the budget office.

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