The Speaker of Edo State Home of Meeting, Blessing Agbebaku, has stated that N354m was appropriated to the Workplace of the Deputy Governor as Philip Shaibu is just not anticipated to hold out too many capabilities in 2024.
Within the finances which was signed into legislation by Governor Godwin Obaseki on December 15, the Governor’s Workplace bought an allocation of N19bn, the Secretary to the State Authorities bought N8bn; the Home of Meeting bought N13bn whereas the Head of Service bought N968 million.
Chatting with journalists on the event in his workplace on Thursday, Agbebaku additionally dispelled rumours that the difficulty has triggered acrimony amongst members.
He stated, “Allocation has been completed in a solution to mirror the workplace. Nevertheless, on this event, the governor acknowledged clearly that because the deputy governor had not carried out his capabilities within the outgoing 12 months due to his aspiration, which he recognised to be an enormous one and time-consuming, most of his capabilities had been relocated to different workplaces because the governor has the powers to take action.
“All of us know that the deputy governor doesn’t have constitutional capabilities bestowed on him besides that that are allotted to him by the governor. So most of these issues that the deputy governor used to do, the governor has taken away from him.
“The deputy governor has even complained that he’s not working, if you’re not working, why allocate cash to the workplace?
“The cash is just not allotted to you as a private present, it’s given for work. So, if you’re not working, naturally the cash is not going to come and there’s no means you may be working successfully when you’ve an ambition of changing into the governor.
“We’re speaking a couple of 12 months the place most of it, virtually 11 months will probably be on electioneering. So, how are you now going to operate correctly as a deputy governor? In his magnanimity, the governor has stated, ‘I don’t need to be a stumbling block to your ambition of changing into the governor of the state.’”
He additionally denied that N13bn was allotted to his workplace, however famous that the allocation was to the state Home of Meeting.