The Father of Nigerian Students-FoNS, Chief Dr. Patrick Osagie Eholor otherwise known as Ultimate Equal, Senior Advocate of the Masses and a National stakeholder of the Nigerian most influenced Political parties, Labour Party.
Eholor has condemned the way Nigerian Politicians waste our National resources without any National development. In a viral video he made today, he said "With all the suffering in Nigeria the only thing our Lawmakers can think of is to buy cars worth 200 million. The high cost of things wants to kill the living, Nigeria as a country lacks infrastructure and there are poor roads everywhere and above all insecurity is currently bedeviling the people of Nigeria, yet the National Assembly wants to purchase official cars for each member.
"Nigerians must arise and reject this by all means, I am calling on Labour Party Chairman (Barr. Julius Abure) and Peter Obi to call the Labour Party members to reject this by all means because, some many persons lost their lives just to ensure that the Labour Party members makes it there."
Meanwhile, according to Punch News, Punch reported that the spokesperson of the House of Representatives, Akin Rotimi has come out to explained that "the vehicles to be distributed to members are official vehicles and not for personal use.
"He further explained that these vehicles are assigned to members during their tenure and must be returned after their term ends.
"Rotimi also highlighted that the purchase of operational vehicles is not exclusive to the legislature, as executive appointees also receive vehicles.
"There have been various media reports that each lawmaker in the Green Chamber would get an SUV worth N200m, Rotimi, however, said the claims were exaggerated.
He said, “The House of Representatives is monitoring a trending topic across multiple traditional and online media, concerning the allocation of vehicles to honourable members, and because this issue has understandably generated significant public interest, we believe Nigerians deserve feedback from their elected representatives.
“While many versions of this story carry varying exaggerations, we can confirm that the National Assembly bureaucracy is in the phased process of procuring and distributing operational vehicles to honourable members over the coming weeks and months.
“This development is in accordance with extant procurement laws and has been the practice in previous assemblies. It is also not peculiar to the Legislature, as unelected government officials in the Executive arm of government from the Director level and above, in most cases, have official vehicles attached to their offices."
Eholor hereby says "They should use their Motor Vehicle allowance to purchase the cars and not borrow or take from National budget to get it and if at all they must get cars with the Nigerian funds, they must make use of made in Nigeria (INNOSON) cars."