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President Tinubu Budgets N10billion To Renovate Gbajabiamila’s Official Residence, Another N570million For Travels

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December 6, 2023

This is contained in the President Bola Tinubu’s total allocation of N21billion for Femi Gbajabiamila, in next year’s budget estimates presented to the National Assembly by the President last month.

President Bola Tinubu has set aside N10 billion for the reconstruction and repair of the official residence of his Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila.

This is contained in the President Bola Tinubu’s total allocation of N21billion for Femi Gbajabiamila, in next year’s budget estimates presented to the National Assembly by the President last month.

SaharaReporters earlier reported that the 2024 Nigerian budget proposal also showed that Tinubu and his Vice, Kashim Shettima would spend N10.13billion on meals and travels.

The N27.5trillion budget proposal is still being examined by the National Assembly.

According to the budget proposal, Tinubu will spend N638.5m on local trips and N6.9 billion on foreign trips, totaling N7.6 billion.

Shettima’s travels will gulp N1.8 billion out of which N618.4 million is for local journeys and N1.2 billion for international trips.

According to the breakdown the proposed figure, Gbajabiamila proposed N104million for the purchase of computers and printers. For “local travel and transport for international training,” the CoS office plans to spend N579million, while “miscellaneous” is expected to gulp N103 million.

The budget presentation, made to a joint session, requested a legislative approval of a total spending plan that included 1.78 million barrels per day of crude oil, a borrowing plan of N7.8 trillion, and an exchange rate of N700 to the US dollar.