The 2023 presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Prince Adewole Adebayo, has said Nigerians are reaping the consequence of voting for President Bola Tinubu following the controversy surrounding the 2023 Supplementary Budget.
It was reported that the
Federal Government, in the supplementary budget, plans to spend N2.6 billion on
utility vehicles for the Presidential Villa, and another N6.2 billion for cars
in the State House pool.
Also, the government revealed
plans to spend N5 billion for new cars in the Office of the First Lady and N5.5
billion to procure a Presidential Yacht, which will be managed by the Nigerian
Navy.
Speaking in an interview with
Daily Trust on Sunday, Adebayo advised Nigerians to bear the luxury and extravagant
lifestyles of Tinubu and other political leaders because they voted for them.
Adebayo said the problem with
Nigeria has never been that of lack of money but that of leadership, adding
that the people ought to accept that the way a politician campaigns is the way
he intends to govern.
He said: “I have said many
times that votes have consequences. If you are voting emperors, you will have
imperial budgets.
“Did the expensive grand
campaign they did show that they were coming to govern people who can hardly
feed once or twice a day? We have to make up our minds what kind of government
we want to run because this is an imperial system that is not supportable by
the economic base and not supportable by the average livelihood of the Nigerian
people.”
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