A statement by the Senior Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the
President on Media and Publicity, Mr Garba Shehu said “the documents submitted
to the CCB, which officials say are still being vetted and will soon be made
public, show that prior to being sworn in on May 29, President Buhari had less
than N30 million to his name. He also had only one bank account, with the Union
Bank. President Buhari had no foreign account, no factory and no
enterprises. He also had no registered company and no oil wells”, the statement
said.
The statement further added that
“the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo (SAN) who had been a successful
lawyer before his foray into politics declared a bank balance of about N94
million and 900,000 United States Dollars in his bank accounts”.
It added that President Buhari “had shares in Berger Paints, Union Bank
and Skye Bank.
The documents also revealed that “President Buhari had a total of five
homes, and two mud houses in Daura. He had two homes in Kaduna, one each in
Kano, Daura and in Abuja. One of the mud houses in Daura was inherited from his
late older sister, another from his late father. He borrowed money from the old
Barclays Bank to build two of his homes.
“President Buhari also has two undeveloped plots of land, one in Kano
and the other in Port Harcourt. He is still trying to trace the location of the
Port Harcourt land.
“In addition to the homes in Daura, he has farms, an orchard and a
ranch. The total number of his holdings in the farm include 270 heads of
cattle, 25 sheep, five horses, a variety of birds and a number of economic
trees”.
The documents also showed that the retired General “uses a number of
cars, two of which he bought from his savings and the others supplied to him by
the federal government in his capacity as former Head of State. The rest were
donated to him by well-wishers after his jeep was damaged in a Boko Haram bomb
attack on his convoy in July 2014.
The same forms, according to Mr Shehu, notes that ” Vice-President,
Professor Yemi Osinbajo’s asset declaration include his 4-bedroom residence at
Victoria Garden City, Lagos and a 3-bedroom flat at 2 Mosley Road, Ikoyi. The
Vice President also has a 2-bedroom flat at the popular Redemption Camp along
Lagos-Ibadan Expressway and a 2-bedroom mortgaged property in Bedford, England.
Aside from these, the Vice President has no other landed properties on the
form.
“Apart from his law firm, known as SimmonsCooper, the Vice-President
also declared shareholding in six private companies based in Lagos, including
Octogenerium Ltd., Windsor Grant Ltd., Tarapolsa, Vistorion Ltd., Aviva Ltd.
and MTN Nigeria.
“His personal vehicles are one Infinity 4-Wheel Drive SUV, one Mercedes
Benz and a Prado Jeep.
“As soon as the CCB is through with the process, the documents will be
released to the Nigerian public and people can see for themselves,” Mr Shehu
said.
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