Edo Govt moves to restore full budgetary allocation to Office of Deputy Governor

reports that the House received the letter from Governor Godwin Obaseki for the revision of the budget at plenary on Monday. The governor's letter dated May 16, 2024 was addressed to the Speaker of the House, Blessing Agbebaku. The letter titled, 'Forwarding of the revised year 2024 Edo State budget', was signed by Osarodion Ogie, Secretary to the State Government and read by the Clerk of the House, Yahaya Omogbai at the plenary.

reports that the revision of the budget was geared towards shoring up the budgetary allocation to the Office of the Deputy Governor which is now being occupied by Marvelous Godwins Omobayo, the new deputy governor of Edo State. The initial budgetary allocation of N1,337,935,600 to the office of the deputy governor was reduced to N354,522,720 on December 26, 2023, during the face-off between Obaseki and his now impeached deputy, Phillip Shaibu.

recalls that the Speaker of the House Blessing Agbebaku, while defending the reduction of the budgetary allocation to the Office of the Deputy Governor, had opined that the impeached deputy governor, Philip Shaibu, was not expected to carry out too many functions in 2024, as he would be contesting for the governorship election. The Speaker had said, 'The Deputy Governor doesn’t have constitutional functions bestowed on him except those which are allocated to him by Mr Governor.

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