Buhari, Osinbajo Cut Their Salaries To Gain Cheap Popularity

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of trying to gain cheap popularity by cutting his salary by 50 percent.

Buhari slashed his annual salary from N14 million to N7 million, and also rejected a proposal for the purchase of five armoured Mercedes cars worth N400 million, for his use. Reacting, the PDP said the cut was an attempt to play to the gallery.

In a statement on Tuesday, Olisa Metuh, spokesman of the PDP, urged the president to stop “brandishing cosmetic achievements and focus on governance”.

“As the leader of the most populous black nation in the world, we believe you should not allow your presidency to be pushed into the gimmicks of playing to the gallery and attempting to use the dramatisation of promissory notes and pledges by foreign interests, false premature claims of victory against insurgency, dramatisation of salary cut and rejection of official cars, all to gain cheap popularity and create an impression that the government is on course when in the actual fact, the new administration has not been able to locate a bearing since its inauguration in May,” the statement reads.