President Buhari’s Reaction To Public Outrage Over N19 Billion Presidency Budget

President Muhammadu Buhari has reportedly ordered for a downward review of the billions of Naira allocated to the Presidency in the 2016 Budget. This follows public outrage which have greeted the amount.

It was gathered on Tuesday that the President was angered at the bashing he was receiving over the billions allocated to his office, that of his vice, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, as well as Aso Rock as a whole. Details provided by Nigeria’s budget office shows that the presidency got N19billion.



Further details on the presidential budget are as follows: State House headquarters – N12billion; President’s operations – N1.9billion; Vice President’s operations – N322million; Chief of Staff – N2.3million; Chief Security Officer – N3.2million; Lagos liaison office – N127million; State House medical centre – N3.9billion; Feeding N445million. Most of the figures are higher than allocations budgeted for same departments in recent years under President Goodluck Jonathan.

A government official however said, the Budget Ministry had received presidential directive to slash the N19billion budget.