Declaration of assets publicly isn't mandatory — Imo governor

The Imo State Governor, Chief Rochas Okorocha, has said declaration of assets publicly is not mandotory. Thus, the governor has made it clear that he will also not declare his assets publicly alleging that those asking him to do so were the supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party, who were bent on frustrating his administration.

 According to a report by The Punch, Okorocha, who spoke through his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Sam Onwuamado, said, "This is an individual thing. Governor Okorocha believes he is a second-term governor, he is not a new governor that should be declaring assets. Meanwhile, there is no law that says governors should declare their assets.

“When former President Goodluck Jonathan was in power, who talked about declaration of assets? What President Buhari has done is a good thing, but it is not mandatory,” Onwumado dropped. The report further revealed that Okorocha has maintained that he will not rule the people of the state by public opinion as there were no calls for declaration of assets during the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan. He advised Nigerians not to use the APC’s “change” promise against the party in whatever way.




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Ekiti PDP tells APC —You can’t force governor to declare assets

                           

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti State has said that the All Progressives Congress (APC) can’t force Governor Ayo Fayose to disclose his assets. The Ekiti APC had, on Tuesday, September, 8, 2015, dared Fayose to disclose his assets.

 The PDP however said that the APC lacks the moral justification to criticize Fayose for not making his assets public when many APC governors had failed to do so. This was contained in a statement released on Wednesday, September 9, by Ekiti PDP Publicity Secretary, Jackson Adebayo.

 It reads in part: “The declaration made by Buhari cannot be compared to that made by the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua which till date has been adjudged as a perfect declaration by any Nigerian President.” The Ekiti PDP also said that Buhari’s declaration “contained many loopholes which no sensible person should be proud of.” Buhari declared his assets publicly on September 3, and said that every governor and minister is compelled to follow suit. Fayose however criticized the president’s declaration saying that he is not as poor as he’s claiming to be.






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President Buhari says governors, ministers must also declare assets

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that governors and ministers in the country must declare their assets because it’s a constitutional provision. Buhari and Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo declared their assets publicly on September 3, 2015.

 The President made the comment on Monday, September 7, during an official visit to Ghana. He said: “I recall that in 1975 when late Murtala Mohammed became the Head of State, we were lined up in the corridor – governors, ministers, members of the Supreme Military Council – and officials of Ministry of Justice were brought and every individual was made to declare his assets.” “So right now, all heads of state and government, governors, ministers, permanent secretaries will have to declare their assets because it is a constitutional requirement.” Buhari also said that he had declared his assets four times since 1975 when he was a governor.



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Ekiti APC challenges Fayose to declare assets

             

The Ekiti State branch of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has urged Governor Ayo Fayose to declare his assets. The call was made by Ekiti APC Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun via a statement released on Tuesday, September 8, 2015.

 The party also expressed worry at unconfirmed reports that Fayose had acquired properties in Ghana, Dubai, South Africa, Abuja, Ibadan, Banana Island and Magodo since assuming office nine months ago. The statement reads: “The governor must seize the opportunity of declaring his assets to douse speculations of his alleged funnelling of the state resources to his private enterprises abroad.”

 “It is curious that he has not abused President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo after they declared their assets. Fayose’s loud silence on the President in this case is curious because the governor has never seen anything good in whatever the President does.” “We are worried by the unconfirmed reports of primitive acquisitions by the governor who allegedly own properties in Ghana, Dubai, South Africa, Abuja, Ibadan and Banana Islands and Magodo in Lagos which were believed to have been acquired in the last nine months after he assumed office.”

“Our party is aware that Fayose had no visible means of income prior to October 16, 2014 when he became governor and the properties he owned in Ibadan and Lagos are subjects of litigation by the EFCC, which is probing the governor for misappropriation and diversion of N1.3b poultry project cash to personal use in 2005.” “Fayose is alleged to be building a state-of-the-art hotel in Dubai after he became Ekiti governor and after he is also reported to have paid a whopping N722 million to himself as “arrears of his allowances” as governor during his first term on the strength of the Supreme Court judgment which nullified his impeachment.”

 “Curiously too, Fayose has kept mute on various sums of money he has received on behalf of the state government, such as the N22 billion refund on Federal roads, N2billion ecological fund, N2billion micro credit fund, which he has diverted, N2.1 billion bailout NLNG fund, N9.6 billion bailout cash, N8.5 billion windfall received in June and an average of N3billion regular federal allocations he has been receiving since October 2014 till date.”

 “We will stop at nothing to make sure that Fayose declares his assets openly so that we could remind him if he leaves any of his assets undeclared.” President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo publicly declared their assets on September 3. Buhari also said that governors and ministers are required to declare their assets in compliance with Nigeria’s constitution.


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Senator Shehu Sani voluntarily declare assets

       

Senator Shehu Sani representing Kaduna Central Senatorial Districk has followed the example of President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo by declaring his assets, 24 hours after the two leaders took the bold step.

In a statement by Sani on Thursday, September 4, which was made available to newsmen, he has three bank accounts with a total of N22 million in them. He owns two residential houses in Kaduna, two houses under lease in Kaduna, two uncompleted office apartments in Kaduna, one residential house in Abuja, one family inherited house in Kurfi, Katsina State, and one family inherited house in Minna, Niger State. He also added that he owns several cars, and bought N5million worth of shares in 2007 but which crashed in 2008.

 According to him, declaration of assets is a moral challenge to all public office holders. The statement read, "In line with moral example set by President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Osinbajo, and in conformity to the standard of transparent and exemplary leadership, and in submission to the public and popular demand for integrity test to all public office holders, in a new Nigeria on a filtration process for a politically cleaner and decent future, I have decided to voluntarily make this public declaration. "President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Osinbajo public declaration of their assets is a moral challenge to all public holders. Their declaration challenges all men of conscience and docks all men who lay claim to self dignity and self worth. "Their public declaration hangs a chain of guilt on the neck of all public office holders.

 To refuse to publicly declare assets is to continue to carry the burden of a moral thorn of guilt in a nation whose generation of leaders for so long stands in the dock of ethical court. "There are no saints and angels in politics, but the citizenry deserve to know the moral truth behind the facade of uprightness. A clean broom is needed to clean a dirty space. I chose to publicly declare and be pelted than to walk with the stain of suspicion and mistrust splashed on all public office holders by a generation of curious citizenry." Sani is the first Senator and public office holder to publicly declare his assets after the surprise announcement of the President and Vice President's assets on Wednesday, September 4.




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PDP - Buhari and Osinbajo's assets declaration is deceptive

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has faulted the assets declared by President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday, September 3, saying its a mere "deceptive window-dressing to hoodwink unsuspecting Nigerians”

In a statement signed by PDP National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh on Friday, September 4, the President's statement in March, promising he would declare his assets publicly was recalled. It read, “I pledge to publicly declare my assets and liability and also encourage my political appointees to publicly declare their assets and liability." The party said Buhari and Osinbajo have failed to produce copies of their declarations, detailing the exact nature and value of respective assets. The statement reads,

 “We have noted the release of a flimsy list of belongings of President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo by the Presidency, who want such to pass as the public declaration of assets as pledged by the President. “Nigerians are not deceived by this poor attempt at window-dressing designed by the Presidency to hoodwink the unsuspecting populace in a desperate bid to shore up its diminished image.

“We ask, is the resort to a mere list, instead of true copies of the declaration not a ploy to give the Presidency a window for denial in consonance with their widely observed inclination for flip flopping, backtracking and brazen denials of their statements and actions? “All we want is credibility, integrity and sincerity of purpose. We are not questioning how a President, who by December last year, declared that he had only N1 million in his account, could suddenly now list N30 million in the same bank account by May 29, and after an expensive campaign; we are not yet demanding the public declaration of his assets in his wife’s name.

“We are not even applauding the multiplication of his cows from 150 to 250 in a space of three months, arising from his dual and conflicting pronouncements on this issue“What the PDP and discerning Nigerians demand is for Mr. President to always stand by his words and pledge. “Mr. President, this is a mere list of your belongings and not public declaration of assets in fulfillment of your covenant with Nigerians”
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Buhari and Osinbajo Publicly Declare Their a$$ets

                                                 
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari and his Vice, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, have (finally) declared their a$$ets. 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 further added, “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”.

 Buhari and Osinbajo and their party, the All Progressives Congress have come under a lot of fire for not declaring their a$$ets which most insist was part of the President’s campaign policies while the party insisted that it was not. The revelation of the a$$ets also said 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”. Mr Garba revealed that the full documents will be revealed to the public soon as they are done being reviewed by the CCB.


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