The Presidential Candidate of the Social Democratic Party SDP for the 2023 general election, Adewole Adebayo has said that the recent purchase of luxury vehicles for Niger republic by the federal government shows that the Nigerian government is not broke.
Speaking In a television interview on Wednesday evening, Adebayo added that Nigeria’s collective wealth is gradually filtering into private hands.
“Money is not the problem of Nigeria. People have been saying the government is broke. The government is not broke. I have been saying this for many months now,” Adebayo said.
“The government is not broke. The government is broken, so the money of the government is now entering private hands.
“ASUU money is even there. I hope nobody believes that the reason ASUU is on strike is because the government has no money. No! ASUU is on strike because the government has money and people in government want to keep spending that ASUU money. They don’t want to give it to the university. It is not as if there is no money for ASUU.
“The government also has money for military hardware; what they have not been managing is the procurement discipline, accountability and monitoring. That is where the problem lies.
“If it is done for security, even the minister of finance who is approving it will not even know what she is approving. Ideally, it will come under an omnibus budget for an agency that is responsible for that kind of operation.
“What they did looks like a gift being given by the president of Nigeria to a foreign country at a time when Nigerians are hungry, when Nigerians are looking for the basic living. It is a disaster”, he added.
