The Speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly, Blessing Agbebaku, has explained that the office of the Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu, got only N354m allocation in the 2024 budget because he, Shaibu, will be preoccupied with his governorship ambition next year and won’t be able to do much official work.
According to the Speaker, the deputy governor should not expect to get much money since he would not be doing much official work.
Ripples Nigeria reports that in the budget, signed into law by Governor Godwin Obaseki on December 15, the governor’s office got an allocation of N19bn, the Secretary to the State Government got N8bn, the House of Assembly got N13bn while the Head of Service got N968m.
