The Presidency has lashed out at the Labour Party (LP) candidate in the 2023 presidential election, Peter Obi, for what it termed attempts to whip up public sentiments against the Bola Tinubu administration on the budgetary provision for the completion of the Vice President’s residence.
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) had, in the 2024 budget proposal, earmarked N15.5 billion for the renovation of the Vice President’s official residence, a development that OBI described as shocking and disheartening.
Reacting to Obi’s comments in a statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity in the Office of the Vice President, Stanley Nkwocha, the Presidency said the quest to give the VP a befitting residence started in 2007 during the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan.
Nwokocha said this had similar targets for the residences of the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
He said the project, which was reinitiated in 2010 and was funded by the Jonathan administration, was abandoned. The current FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, felt it would be a waste to allow such a project started with public funds to continue to follow.
The statement further stated that Obi knows the facts but chose to inflame a targeted group of Nigerians and, as usual, score cheap political goals, accolades, and praises.
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