Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has counselled President Mohammadu Buhari to stay at home and govern the country instead of junketing from one country to the other, saying; “foreign countries won’t solve our problems for us and the President’s incessant foreign trips is already bleeding the economy with about $1 million being spent per trip.”
The governor, who said most of the trips embarked on by the President were unnecessary, added that ministers or at best the Vice President could have been made to attend most of the functions being attended abroad by the President.
According to a statement issued in Ado-Ekiti by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Governor Fayose said that “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: from facebook page of Mr Lere Olayinka, special adviser to governor Fayose on publicity and new media.

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The cost of travelling is a source for concern really

Fayose always on point

The money used to rig his election should be enough to give Buhari a return to every nation on the planet with change. Poor excuse for a human being.

Fayose is now back in the news

Oxokomole 1

If only fayose knew what subtle diplomacy is... If he think travelling to re-assure countries of a new nigeria as obasanjo did in 1999 to repair the spoilt Nigeria image during Abacha reign is a waste of fund. Then He can also advice his kinsmen to avoid food as a waste of money but rather commit such fund to savings. Both food and travelling in this context are matters of neccessity.

Some zombies won't read and assimilate wat fayose said,they wil come here and rather insult him.fayose God bless u for always speaking the minds of millions of rite tinking nigerians..

skademzy:
If only fayose knew what subtle diplomacy is... If he think travelling to re-assure countries of a new nigeria as obasanjo did in 1999 to repair the spoilt Nigeria image during Abacha reign is a waste of fund. Then He can also advice his kinsmen to avoid food as a waste of money but rather commit such fund to savings. Both food and travelling in this context are matters of neccessity.

Gosh you guys are unbelievable....
$ 1million dollars is equal to #280 million(or more)
Five trips is over a billion.

How many world leaders have come here to see you?

I would have thought that he put his energy into restructuring the nation instead if being irritated and embarrassed with issues he is supposed to deal with.

" 1 million dollar per trip"
Wetin happen?
Na one country budget be that oooo

I don't know why but I'm beginning to like this Fayose man.


PMB is junketing too much, but I pray good thing comes out of the travels.

Fayose, shut up there; those trips are budgetted. The monies you are so concerned about are made abroad and those foreign countries must be reassured and lobbied to do business and cooperate with the return of stolen funds.

In trying times like these, don't y'all think the man with the highest integrity, pedigree and reputation should be the man to talk on our behalf?

What's tha business?

Fayose VS Buhari

Too much..

“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".

Time to caution this ajala president. Haba, kilode gan, abi afi se ni.

Enjoy the video below:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0gR6fxG24c

Gbam

If they are yielding results, there is no problem.

I love the way and manner fayose makes common sense look simple for those who are intelligent but difficult for dullards and zombies to understand

onatisi:
I love the way and manner fayose makes common sense look simple for those who are intelligent but difficult for dullards and zombies

O fi Ope' damu awon Ologbon

some zoombie wil not comment

Flexherbal:
If they are yielding results, there is no problem.

so spending 2 months out of 8 months abroad as a Nigerian president is good for the nation at this critical time when the economy is down and the nation Is at war?

chomchom1:
some zoombie wil not comment

Zombies don't comment when they see the truth, they are brainwashed and hypnotized.

By the time fayose's tenure will end,ekiti will open their eyes to ask question like "wt infrastructure did he put in place" well by den,it will dawn on dem dt dey use the money 4 d state to either attack buhari or dey use it to gain more kilos. This man shud face his work,ekiti doesn't hv d resources to b d only "talk-talk"

I like that word globethrottle,jumping upandan

More than the cost of his trips, it is his frequent absence from office with nothing to show for is really worrisome.
Economy is becoming comatose with massive job losses . Soaring prices of basic essentials items
Naira is Falling to record levels .Security is again Worsening .

But still he wants to travel around the world .
Is there any democratically elected president or prime minster in whole world roaming around like president buhari ?

It almost seems like the president is running away from something. His trips are too many and it is being funded by tax payers, if he wants to keep travelling like this, it should be funded from his own purse.

Pidggin:
It almost seems like the president is running away from something. His trips are too many and it is being funded by tax payers, if he wants to keep travelling like this, it should be funded from his own purse .

Supported, let Buhary start using his salary to pay for his adventuring.

viktor01:
Geez.! Is that really what this man burns per trip?
The money is too much, make this man give himself some sense na.
[b]Truly critics are those who help you thread carefuly. Buhari has to be careful with those who sing his praises.[/b]

Buhary's enemies are the Zombies who keep praising him for all his action including the stupid ones.

If GEJ was severally condemned for few travels, I wonder why Alhaji Lie Mohammed suddenly lost his voice of criticizing bad practices as they believe they are fighting for the masses. Bunch of hypocrites.