Asset declaration: I have no new houses, shares – Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari submitted his asset declaration forms to the Code of Conduct Bureau on Tuesday , meeting the May 28 deadline the bureau set for public officers to make their end of tenure declaration .

Buhari will be inaugurated for a second term on Wednesday ( today ) for another four years .
By constitutional provisions , the declaration is mandatorily to precede his oath- taking today .

“ The duly completed forms were submitted to the Chairman of the CCB , Prof Mohammed Isa, on behalf of the President by Sarki Abba , Senior Special Assistant , Household and Domestic Affairs ” , the Presidency said last night in a statement by Buhari ’ s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity , Mr Garba Shehu.

The President claimed not to own new property than the assets he declared in 2015 when he began his first term .
The Presidency said , “ The forms , as signed by the President and sworn to before a Judge of Abuja High Court, showed no significant changes in assets as declared in 2015 by him .

“ There are no new houses , no new bank accounts at home and abroad and there are no new shares acquired .

“ The chairman of the CCB commended the President for leading by example by declaring his assets in accordance with the law . ”
The PUNCH recalls that Buhari in 2015 , through a statement by Shehu, mentioned the assets he had declared at the CCB before assuming office .
On the list released in September , 2015 , Buhari stated that he had N 30 m in his bank account before he assumed office in May of that year .
In addition to owning 270 cows , 25 sheep , five horses , birds and economic trees , there were five houses in Kaduna , Daura, Kano and Abuja. He said the Daura houses were made of “ mud . ”
He also owned a plot of land each in Port Harcourt and Kano ; farms , an orchard and some cars .

The President operated an account with Union Bank , but the statement said he neither owned a foreign account nor any company /factory .
Among the property declared were shares in Berger Paints, Union Bank and Skye Bank .
The Presidency had said further , “ The retired general uses a number of cars , two of which he bought from his savings and the others supplied to him by the Federal Government in his capacity as a former Head of State .

“ The rest were donated to him by well -wishers after his jeep was damaged in a Boko Haram bomb attack on his convoy in July 2014 . ”
For Vice – President Yemi Osinbajo , the Presidency stated that he had , “ A bank balance of about N 94 m and 900, 000 United States Dollars in his bank accounts . ”

The houses owned by Osinbajo back then were listed as “ four- bedroomed residence on Victoria Garden City, Lagos , and a three – bedroom flat on 2 , Mosley Road , Ikoyi; two – bedroom flat on Redemption Camp along Lagos – Ibadan Expressway and a 2 – bedroom mortgaged property in Bedford , England . ”

The Presidency added , “ Apart from his law firm , known as SimmonsCooper , the vice -president also declared shareholding in six private companies based in Lagos , including Octogenerium Limited , Windsor Grant Limited , Tarapolsa , Vistorion Limited , Aviva Limited and MTN Nigeria. ”

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