ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)-Senator representing Bauchi Central on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Abdul Ningi, has challenged the Senate President of Nigeria, Godswill Akpabio over his take-home pay.
Senator Ningi who spoke on Tuesday while defending his budget padding allegation on the floor of the Senate said he doesn’t know Akpabio’s take home but Akpabio knows his.
Earlier, the senator alleged that the 2024 budget was padded to the tune of N3.7 trillion.
Ningi who is the chairman of the Northern Senators Forum was to make a presentation on the budget padding allegation but swerved off and told Akpabio that he doesn’t know how much he (Akpabio ) and other principal officers earn in a month.
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The chairman, Senate Committee on Population said we discovered, some senatorial districts in this documents have up to N120 billion and my senatorial district has just N1.2 billion.
“Mr President in this budget presented to you, I have facts, constituency by constituency. Some N120 billion, some N50 billion; some N30 billion. Some have less than N1 billion.
“Mr President as I speak to you, I don’t know your take-home pay, you know my own. I don’t know the take-home pay of any of the other principal officers.
“My President, I know within budgetary provisions, you made available funds for purchase of cars. Mr President, I don’t know how much you made for your cars and principals officers. I know how much was made for individual senator’s cars.
“As I speak to you, people are calling me names, I didn’t receive a single car.
“All within the budget provisions, Mr President, I have as a matter of fact, five aides just like other senators but I don’t know how many aides you have or how many the Deputy Senate President has.”