Olusola Fabiyi, John Ameh and Tobi Aworinde, AbujaThe Federal Government budgeted N1,001,318,171 for President Muhammadu Buhari’s local and international travels in the proposed 2019 budget. However, the President’s office was given a dedicated vote of N10bn for the running of his office, out of which N7.5bn went for operations. To maintain presidential office buildings will cost N4.7bn this year. A further breakdown of the presidential budget showed that the Presidency would buy vehicles worth N607.1m this year. Aside from the N4.7bn budgeted for the maintenance of office buildings, the Presidential residential buildings will be rehabilitated with another N140.4m.

Source: Punch December 31, 2018 23:37 UTC