...Buhari’s Unnecessary
Trips The Bleeding Economy”
Ekiti State
Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has counselled President Muhammadu Buhari to stay
at home and govern the country instead of junketing from one country to the
other, saying; “foreign countries won’t
solve our problems for us and the President’s incessant foreign trips is
already bleeding the economy with about $1 million being spent per trip.”
The governor, who
said most of the trips embarked on by the President were unnecessary, added
that ministers or at best the Vice President could have been made to attend
most of the functions being attended abroad by the President.
According to a
statement issued in Ado-Ekiti by his Special Assistant on Public Communications
and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Governor Fayose said that “the President should
rather listen more to those of us who criticise him instead of those hailing
every of his wrong steps either because of what they intend to gain or for fear
of persecution.”
The statement read;
“Conservatively, about $1 million goes into every of the foreign trips and the
way the President is going, foreign trips alone might gulp 20 percent of the
Federal Government budget and that will be disastrous for the dwindling economy
of the country.
