President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo had on Tuesday submitted their asset declaration forms to the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB).
The duo, who will be inaugurated today for another four years, were able to meet the May 28 deadline the bureau set for public officers to make their end of tenure declaration.
Buhari’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mr Garba Shehu, said in a statement on Tuesday night that, “the duly completed forms were submitted to the Chairman of the CCB, Prof Mohammed Isa, on behalf of the President by Sarki Abba, Senior Special Assistant, Household and Domestic Affairs.”
The Presidency said, “The forms, as signed by the President and sworn to before a Judge of Abuja High Court, showed no significant changes in assets as declared in 2015 by him.
“There are no new houses, no new bank accounts at home and abroad and there are no new shares acquired.
“The chairman of the CCB commended the President for leading by example by declaring his assets in accordance with the law.”
Buhari had in 2015 stated that he had N30m in his Union bank account, including shares in Berger Paints, Union Bank and Skye Bank.
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He also owned 270 cows, 25 sheep, five horses, birds and economic trees, there were five houses in Kaduna, Daura, Kano and Abuja. He, however, noted that the Daura houses were made of “mud.”
He also owned a plot of land each in Port Harcourt and Kano; farms, an orchard and some cars.
“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 a former Head of State,” the statement read.
“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.”
On his part, the Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, has “A bank balance of about N94m and 900,000 United States Dollars in his bank accounts.”
According to the Presidency, the same houses owned by Osinbajo back then were listed as “four-bedroomed residence on Victoria Garden City, Lagos, and a three-bedroom flat on 2, Mosley Road, Ikoyi; two-bedroom flat on Redemption Camp along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway and a 2-bedroom mortgaged property in Bedford, England.”
“Apart from his law firm, known as SimmonsCooper, the vice-president also declared shareholding in six private companies based in Lagos, including Octogenerium Limited, Windsor Grant Limited, Tarapolsa, Vistorion Limited, Aviva Limited and MTN Nigeria,” the presidency added.