Sunday October 4, Abubakar Sulaiman, the immediate past
minister/deputy chairman, National Planning Commission,
branded the Governor of Kaduna state, Mallam Nasir El-rufai
a ‘liar’ for alleging that his administration spent N64 billion
on October 1 celebrations between 2010 and 2015. He added
that Jonathan administration spent only N332.6 million for
the celebration in 3 years - an average of N66m per year.
The statement reads:
"We were taken aback by the recent comment reportedly
credited to His Excellency, Governor Nasir El-Rufai where
he claimed that the immediate past President, His Excellency,
Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan’s administration spent
N64billion to cover the country independence anniversary
spending in five years. The break down, according to the
governor showed that N13billion was spent in 2011,
N15billion in 2012 and N14billion in 2013 and N22billion
allegedly spent in 2014.
This tissue of lies was contained on his facebook comment on
Thursday. Ordinarily, we would have allowed this to go as just
ranting of a favour seeker , but for the sake of ordinary
Nigerians who were abreast of happenings under the
dministration and also those who never did, we will like to
set the record straight. It is important to correct the
misinformation so that the unsuspecting public would not
be misled. For the record, a breakdown of our anniversary
spending between 2012 to 2014 amounted to N332.6million.
We challenge the Office of the Government of the
Federation (OSGF) to publish these details for the
consumption of the public. For the record, a breakdown
of our spending for this event between 2012 and 2104 goes
thus; 2012-107.6million; 2013-45million and 2014 had
180million. So, the question here is where did the billions
as claimed by El-Rufai emanate from? Even though that of
2010 and 2011 are not handy now, but it should be known
that they all fall within the same bracket as the one stated,
except that the 2010 anniversary was a golden one when the
country marked her 50 year of independence. But even then,
not such outrageous sum was either budgeted or expended.
Again, it is germane to explain the increase in the 2013
anniversary spending for the purpose of accountability. The
National Honours Award Investiture was incorporated into
the celebration, thus making it two events in one, hence the
N174,800,000.00 budget. We also want to add that the said
award investiture could not hold in 2013 and the approved
budget rolled over and was utilized to organise the
investiture in 2014. It is high time government functionaries
desisted from abusing their immunity by destroying history
and trading on lies just to gain cheap popularity or curry one
favour or the other from certain quarters. Perhaps President
Olusegun Obasanjo was right in his assessment of El-Rufai
when he said in his latest memoir, My Watch that his vivid
recollection of him (El-Rufai)is his penchant for lying, for
unfair embellishment of stories and his inability to sustain
loyalty for long. That exactly is what El-Rufai has done with
his ungodly fabrication of lies against Jonathan government.
One hopes that President Buhari would be on guard against
being misled by the likes of El-Rufai who are hell bent on
misinforming the Nigerian publics."
credited to His Excellency, Governor Nasir El-Rufai where
he claimed that the immediate past President, His Excellency,
Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan’s administration spent
N64billion to cover the country independence anniversary
spending in five years. The break down, according to the
governor showed that N13billion was spent in 2011,
N15billion in 2012 and N14billion in 2013 and N22billion
allegedly spent in 2014.
This tissue of lies was contained on his facebook comment on
Thursday. Ordinarily, we would have allowed this to go as just
ranting of a favour seeker , but for the sake of ordinary
Nigerians who were abreast of happenings under the
dministration and also those who never did, we will like to
set the record straight. It is important to correct the
misinformation so that the unsuspecting public would not
be misled. For the record, a breakdown of our anniversary
spending between 2012 to 2014 amounted to N332.6million.
We challenge the Office of the Government of the
Federation (OSGF) to publish these details for the
consumption of the public. For the record, a breakdown
of our spending for this event between 2012 and 2104 goes
thus; 2012-107.6million; 2013-45million and 2014 had
180million. So, the question here is where did the billions
as claimed by El-Rufai emanate from? Even though that of
2010 and 2011 are not handy now, but it should be known
that they all fall within the same bracket as the one stated,
except that the 2010 anniversary was a golden one when the
country marked her 50 year of independence. But even then,
not such outrageous sum was either budgeted or expended.
Again, it is germane to explain the increase in the 2013
anniversary spending for the purpose of accountability. The
National Honours Award Investiture was incorporated into
the celebration, thus making it two events in one, hence the
N174,800,000.00 budget. We also want to add that the said
award investiture could not hold in 2013 and the approved
budget rolled over and was utilized to organise the
investiture in 2014. It is high time government functionaries
desisted from abusing their immunity by destroying history
and trading on lies just to gain cheap popularity or curry one
favour or the other from certain quarters. Perhaps President
Olusegun Obasanjo was right in his assessment of El-Rufai
when he said in his latest memoir, My Watch that his vivid
recollection of him (El-Rufai)is his penchant for lying, for
unfair embellishment of stories and his inability to sustain
loyalty for long. That exactly is what El-Rufai has done with
his ungodly fabrication of lies against Jonathan government.
One hopes that President Buhari would be on guard against
being misled by the likes of El-Rufai who are hell bent on
misinforming the Nigerian publics."
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