The Special Adviser on Digital Media to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Dada Olusegun, has reacted to claims making the rounds of a 114 percent increase in pay for the president, vice, governors, judges and other political aides.
In a tweet on Wednesday, Dada dismissed the report as fake news.
“Ignore the lies from certain media outlets claiming the FG approved a 114 per cent salary increase for political aides. Fake news cannot and will never win”, he wrote.
Corroborating Tinubu’s aide’s tweet, the Public Relations Officer of the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) Christian Nwachukwu, said President Tinubu did not approve salary increments for politically exposed persons.
Meanwhile, Politics Nigeria gathered that a Federal Commissioner in the Commission, Rakiya Tanko-Ayuba, had initially made the salary increment remark when she represented RMAFC chairman Mohammad Shehu at the presentation of the reports of the reviewed remuneration package to Kebbi State Governor, Nasir Idris, in Birnin Kebbi, on Tuesday, June 20.
