The Lagos state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has alleged that the Lagos state government spent N3.2bn in preparing for the cancelled of President Muhammadu Buhari to the state on Monday, May 23.
In a statement sent out to journalists by the party’s publicity secretary, Taofiq Gani, the PDP said Governor Ambode must account for the over N3.2 billion claimed to have been expended on the failed visit.
“We demand that the over N3.2bn claimed to have been spent to welcome the president to Lagos must be accounted for.
“The beneficiaries of the contracts and the costs of the contracts involved in the ceremonies must be made public for Lagosians to know. This is needless waste of public funds,” the statement read in part.
According to the Lagos PDP, the cancelled visit of President Buhari to Lagos state was “a fraud and another expose that the APC is too haphazard in governance, hence the total disconnect between the state governor and the presidency, thereby causing the state not to know that the president had changed his mind on visiting the state.”
The party stated that the government has misplaced its priority to have invited the presidency “to commission ordinary rehabilitation of roads, which are not even more than seven in a state with 245 Wards.”