The Office of the Vice President of Nigeria paid the
sum of N10 million to offset hotel bills incurred by guests of Folashade
Tinubu-Ojo, President Bola Tinubu’s daughter, FIJ has learned.On
November 17, 2023, the vice president’s office paid the sum to Royal
Pacific Group, and the payment description states, “Payment in favour of
Fraser Suites, Abuja, Nigeria, for the settlement of hotel
accommodation bills for the service rendered to guests of Mrs Folashade
Tinubu-Ojo”.FIJ found records of this transaction on the BudgIT Govspend
platform as scraped from the publicly available Open Treasury
Portal.Folashade is the national leader of Nigerian traders.
Popularly
referred to as Iyaloja-General of Nigeria, she occupies no elected
office in government, even though in May 2023 she began referring to
herself as the first daughter of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.FIJ
found records dating back to June 11, 2019, of regular payments made by
several MDAs to Royal Pacific Group for accommodation purposes of
guests, but this was the first payment to the company for guests of a
private citizen.FIJ tried to contact Ibrahim Hadejia, Deputy Chief of
Staff to the President in the Office of the Vice President, but we were
unable to obtain his contact information.On Monday, FIJ called Femi
Gbajabiamila, Chief of Staff to the President, but he wasn’t reachable. A
text message sent to him had not been responded to at press time.
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