» President Buhari And VP Osinbajo Declare Assets «

A statement by the Senior Special Adviser on
Media and Publicity to the President on Media and
Publicity, Mr Garba Shehu said “the documents
submitted to the CCB, which officials say are still
being vetted and will soon be made public, show
that prior to being sworn in on May 29, President
Buhari had less than N30 million to his name. He
also had only one bank account, with the Union
Bank. President Buhari had no foreign account,
no factory and no enterprises. He also had no
registered company and no oil wells”, the
statement said.
The statement further added that “the Vice
President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo (SAN) who
had been a successful lawyer before his foray
into politics declared a bank balance of about N94
million and 900,000 United States Dollars in his
bank accounts”.
It added that President Buhari “had shares in
Berger Paints, Union Bank and Skye Bank.
The documents also revealed that “President
Buhari had a total of five homes, and two mud
houses in Daura. He had two homes in Kaduna,
one each in Kano, Daura and in Abuja. One of the
mud houses in Daura was inherited from his late
older sister, another from his late father. He
borrowed money from the old Barclays Bank to
build two of his homes.
“President Buhari also has two undeveloped plots
of land, one in Kano and the other in Port
Harcourt. He is still trying to trace the location of
the Port Harcourt land.
“In addition to the homes in Daura, he has farms,
an orchard and a ranch. The total number of his
holdings in the farm include 270 heads of cattle,
25 sheep, five horses, a variety of birds and a
number of economic trees”.
The documents also showed that 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 former Head of State. 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.
The same forms, according to Mr Shehu, notes
that ” Vice-President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo’s
asset declaration include his 4-bedroom residence
at Victoria Garden City, Lagos and a 3-bedroom
flat at 2 Mosley Road, Ikoyi. The Vice President
also has a 2-bedroom flat at the popular
Redemption Camp along Lagos-Ibadan
Expressway and a 2-bedroom mortgaged
property in Bedford, England. Aside from these,
the Vice President has no other landed properties
on the form.
“Apart from his law firm, known as
SimmonsCooper, the Vice-President also declared
shareholding in six private companies based in
Lagos, including Octogenerium Ltd., Windsor
Grant Ltd., Tarapolsa, Vistorion Ltd., Aviva Ltd.
and MTN Nigeria.
“His personal vehicles are one Infinity 4-Wheel
Drive SUV, one Mercedes Benz and a Prado Jeep.
“As soon as the CCB is through with the process,
the documents will be released to the Nigerian
public and people can see for themselves,” Mr
Shehu said.