Buhari, Osinbajo, Cabinet Ministers To Leave The Office Without Their Official Vehicles – Presidency

Nigeria’s outgoing President Buhari, Osinbajo, Cabinet Ministers to leave the office without their official vehicles – Presidency.

Says Tinubu and his Vice, Shettima, to inherit the official armored luxury vehicles used by their predecessors.

Explained that the law already provided for Ex-presidents, Ex-VPs to get a certain number of vehicles at certain intervals.

The Presidency has said that neither Muhammadu Buhari nor Vice President Yemi Osinbajo nor the cabinet ministers would not leave the office on May 29th with the official vehicles allocated to them.

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, made this known in an interview with Punch Newspaper. He added that ministers would only get what the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission prescribes as their severance benefits.

He noted further that Buhari and Vice-president Yemi Osinbajo would also leave behind their official armored luxury vehicles, which he said would be taken over by their successors, Tinubu and his Vice, Kashim Shettima.

He said :

“As we speak today, nobody is entitled to official cars. What they use are project vehicles. These ones can only be boarded and sold after four years of usage. That is when the book value has been exhausted.

“This is as far as the law recommends as we speak. So, don’t expect that because ministers are leaving, they will carry their vehicles under Buhari.

“It is not going to happen. If the ministers are not taking their vehicles along, you don’t expect the president to take any. It is not going to happen.”

Mallam Garba Shehu further explained that the law already provided for former presidents and their Vice to get a certain number of vehicles at certain intervals.

He stated :

“Former Heads of State have a prescribed number of vehicles they are entitled to, which may be changed after a certain number of years.

“And the President has kept to this by supplying that number of vehicles to all former Heads of State each time it is due. The President will not place himself above the others; that I can assure you.”

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