Former presidential spokesman Pastor Reno Omokri has criticised the outgoing vice president, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, for saying N250,000 monthly pension for him is too small. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Omokri, a People\u2019s Democratic Party chieftain, condemned the comment of Osinbajo in a tweet on Sunday, May 28, 2023. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He further accused the outgoing vice president of not paying attention to the plight of the common man for the past eight years he has been in office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He also stated that Osinbajo tried to betray his former boss and president-elect, Bola Tinubu, by contesting for the presidential ticket of the ruling All Progressives Congress. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He wrote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cVice President Osinbajo is complaining that \u20a6250,000 monthly pension for him as an ex-VP is insufficient. Then how does he expect the man earning \u20a630,000 minimum wage to survive?<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cFor eight years, he chaired the National Economic Council. He never advocated for a pay rise for Nigerian workers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNow that he is about to go after attempting, and failing, to stab Tinubu in the back, he wants a pay rise. Really?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n While speaking at the valedictory session of the outgoing Federal Executive Council, Osinbajo had said while addressing President Muhammadu Buhari:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cPart of the problem with that is that sometimes, you (Buhari) and I end up getting the very short end of the stick. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIf you look at the laws today, our retirement benefits, yours (Buhari) will be N350,000 a month by law and mine will be N250,000 per month. Those, of course, as you can imagine are very tiny amounts of money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAnd I think that one of the things that we must do is to, perhaps, see how we can amend that law so that I will not come to you in Daura and ask for some of your bulls to sell in order to survive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Earlier, the first lady, Mrs Aisha Buhari, also called for increased benefits for ex-presidents and ex-vice-presidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She added that former first ladies should also be beneficiaries of such benefits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Her words: \u201cThe Federal Government should consider us as people that need help, not as magic makers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAnd on the privileges given to the former presidents of Nigeria, they should do more. Considering what people go through in that Presidential Vill, it is still not enough. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAnd at the same time, I want them to incorporate women, the former first ladies, among the beneficiaries.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Former presidential spokesman Pastor Reno Omokri has criticised the outgoing vice president, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, for saying N250,000 monthly pension for him is too small. Omokri, a People\u2019s Democratic Party chieftain, condemned the comment of Osinbajo in a tweet on Sunday, May 28, 2023. He further accused the outgoing vice president of not paying attention […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":6246,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6247,"href":"https:\/\/news.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6245\/revisions\/6247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}