Thirteen years after leaving the office and enjoying the N676,376.95 monthly pension, a former Ogun State Governor, Gbenga Daniel has asked the incumbent Governor Dapo Abiodun to stop the payment .
PLATFORMS TIMES gathered that Daniel wrote this letter following a 2019 Federal Court’s judgement which stopped double payment of benefits to politicians .
PLATFORM TIMES gathered furthered that a federal high court in Ikoyi had in 2019 asked the federal government to recover pensions and allowances received by former and serving senators as ex-governors.
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project had dragged the federal government to court over the matter.
Apparently being conscious of the implication of the judgement, Daniel,who was inaugurated alongside other Senators on June 13 at the National Assembly, wrote the governor and asked that the monthly pension be stopped .
Daniel, in a letter titled, ‘Request To Suspend My Monthly Pension and Allowances’, asked that the N676,376.95 pension/allowances he is entitled to as a former governor be suspended.
The former governor who now represents Ogun East senatorial district,
sais the suspension of the pension was in compliance with his conscience, moral principle and ethical code against double emoluments that a serving Senator, who hitherto was a former State governor, shall not be entitled to the payment of pension and allowances from such State.
The Senator noted that he had not benefitted from any welfare packages be it medical, furniture, transportation and others since he left office in 2011.
The letter dated June 14 and addressed to Gov Abiodun read: “I write to request for the suspension of my monthly pension/allowances of 676,376.95 (gross) (Six Hundred and Seventy-Six Thousand, Three Hundred Seventy-Six Naira, Ninety-Five Kobo) being paid as a former Executive Governor of Ogun State.
“This request is in compliance with my conscience, moral principle and ethical code against double emoluments that 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. Thanks in anticipation.”
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