"I can't continue to collect pension as former governor with free conscience", Gbenga Daniel Writes Ogun Governor

 

Former governor of Ogun state and senator representing Ogun East, Senator Gbenga Daniel has written to Dapo Abiodun, the current Ogun state governor to ask for his monthly benefits as former governor to be suspended.

In a letter acknowledged  by the Governor of  Ogun State, Daniel noted that he could not continue to collect such renumeration without it pricking his conscience.

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The former governor Daniel went on to state that since he left office, he did not receive  any allowances. Whether medical, furniture or otherwise.

Below is his full statement: 

“I write to request the suspension of my monthly pension/allowances of N676,376.95 ( gross) ( Six hundred and Seventy-Six Thousand, Three hundred Seventy-Six Naira, Ninety-Five kobo)  being paid as a former governor of Ogun State.This request is in line with my conscience, moral principle, and ethical code against double emoluments that as a serving Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria who hitherto was a former State Governor, shall not be entitled to the payment of pension and allowances from such state.It would be recalled that on Tuesday 13th June 2023, I was with other elected Senators and Members of the House of Representatives inaugurated as members of the 10th National Assembly.It is pertinent to also have it on record that since I left the office in 2011, I have not benefitted from any welfare packages be it Medical, Furniture, transportation, etc.”