The crisis in between Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State and his deputy, Comrade Philip Shaibu is playing out in the 2024 budget plan of the state with the workplace of the deputy guv getting a paltry N300m as compared to billions gotten in the past.
reports that the N300m yearly budget plan allotment for 2024 fades to the N650m designated to the workplace of the Edo deputy guv in the 2nd quarter of 2022.
The allowance to the deputy guv’s workplace is substantially listed below what was attended to other primary workplaces of the federal government.
reports that besides the bad allotment to the deputy guv for 2024 that Comrade Shaibu has actually just recently grumbled that he has actually not gotten his wage and allowance to the workplace for about 6 months.
The 2024 budget plan was signed into law at night of Friday, December 15, 2023.
It was collected that some legislators thought to be devoted to the deputy guv opposed the choice of the members of the assembly to pass the budget plan as provided by the guv which they stated was an “unreasonable appropriation” however that they were overwhelmed by the Speaker, Rt. Hon Blessing Agbebaku and others.
A peep into the budget plan as passed revealed that the amount of N19, 148, 177, 584 was authorized for the guv while the deputy guv was designated the amount of N345, 522,729.
The workplace of the Secretary to State Government (SSG) had N8, 847, 647, 676, workplace of the Head of Service (HoS) N968, 000, 000 while your home of Assembly had the amount of N13, 074, 500, 000.
A political leader near the guv stated the camp of the guv has actually taken a vow to mock and penalize Shaibu economically in a quote to irritate his governorship goal.