Buhari fails to declar asset publicly

President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo have failed to declare their asset publicly as done by the Late former president Umaru Musa Yar’adua

Though, the duo have proclaimed their assets before the Code of Conduct Bureau as required by the Constitution but failed to make the contents public.

According to the head of Buhari’s media team, Garba Shehu, in a statement on Saturday, said the President and the Vice President submitted their assets declaration forms separately on Thursday.

Shehu added that the CCB, through its Chairman, Sam Saba, on Friday acknowledged the receipt of the forms but failed to disclose the content of the assets declaration form

In his statement, he said, “By declaring their assets, President Buhari and Vice President Osinbajo may have not only fulfilled the requirements of the Nigerian Constitution, but also fulfilled the first of their many campaign promises.

“While seeking election into the highest office in the land, the President had promised Nigerians that he would publicly declare his assets as soon as he took over government,”

Saba, who acknowledged the receipt of the form, gave Buhari's declaration identity number as “President: 000001/2015.”

The Nigerian Constitution states in Chapter VI Section 140 that a person elected to the Office of the President shall not begin to perform the functions of that office until he has declared his assets and liabilities as prescribed in the Constitution.

Though the president’s aide believes the declaration was in fulfillment of Buhari’s campaign promises, analysts claim the President has not done anything spectacular because the contents were not made public.

Had the new president kept to his words in his campaign in February that on assumption to office, he would publicly declear his asset, he will be the country’s second president to publicly declare his assets.

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