Nigeria’s Ex-leader,Buhari Ejected OverUnpaid N20m Rent

African Examiner
Tuesday, February 14,
2012
Former Head of State and
one time minister of oil
resources, General
Muhammadu Buhari, (rtd)
has been ejected from his
Abuja residence
following his inability to
pay the N20 million rent
demanded by his landlord,
Newsdiary Online, a news
portal has disclosed.
According to reports
monitored by our reporter
in Abuja, the retired
general
who is also the
presidential candidate of
Congress for Progressive
Change,
CPC in the April 2011
general elections, was
expected to renew his rent
which was due after the
initial payment.
Consequently, he decided
to move his property to
Kaduna when he could not
raise the amount
demanded by the
landlord.
It was gathered that
owing to inability of
Buhari to raise the N20
million
earlier requested as rent
for the building at Number
11 Queen Elizabeth
Street, Asokoro District,
Abuja, the landlord
reportedly reduced the
rent to
N15 million but Buhari
could still not raise the
funds.
Reports say the original
rent was paid on his
behalf by a former
minister of
defence, General
Theophilus Danjuma, (rtd)
which enabled Buhari to
move
into the house which
provides shelter to him
any time he is in the
Federal
Capital Territory.
Buhari was said to rebuff
suggestions by his friends
to approach Nasarawa
State governor, Alhaji
Umaru Almakura who
won the governorship
seat on
the platform of his party,
CPC, for financial assistance
insisting that he
would rather maintain his
integrity than ask the
governor for money.
It was also gathered that
Buhari also resisted a
similar pressure to
approach
President Goodluck
Jonathan for assistance to
enable him keep the
apartment.
"Some of Buhari's
associates who wanted to
avoid his ejection actually
reached out to the owner
of the property, and the
landlord even agreed to
slash the rent to N15
million for the sake of the
General. Sadly, he could
not
pay and he accepted the
option of moving his
property to Kaduna.
Buhari is
believed to have made up
his mind to put up
somewhere he can afford
whenever he has
something to do in Abuja
henceforth", the News
portal
stated.