The Presidency has lashed out at the Labour Party (LP) candidate in this year’s presidential election, Mr. Peter Obi, for attempting to whip up public sentiments against the Bola Tinubu administration over the budgetary provision for the completion of the Vice President’s residence.
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) had, in the 2024 budget proposal, earmarked N15.5 billion for the renovation of the Vice President’s official residence, a development that Obi, in a couple of tweets on his verified X handle, described as shocking and disheartening.
Reacting to Obi’s comments in a statement yesterday in Abuja by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity in the Office of the Vice President, Stanley Nkwocha, the Presidency said the quest to give the Vice President a befitting residence started in 2007.
It said this was with similar targets for the residences of the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives.
