“How on earth?”: Al-Makura blasts rumors of son’s N1.5 billion wedding

In a debate sure to highlight our political leaders and their spending priorities, Nasarawa governor, Umar Tanko Al-Makura has played down talk that he has expended over N 1.5 billion from the state treasury on his son’s wedding ceremony which took place in the United States about a week ago, describing it as malicious and silly.
In a press statement signed by his senior special assistant on media and press affairs, Sani Musa Mairiga, Al-Makura said the allegations were baseless, unwarranted and unfounded.
“This is the handiwork of mischief makers and enemies of progress, inflaming the social media with incongruous reports that the state government sponsored the wedding ceremony and shouldered all expenses of those who attended the wedding fatihat of Abdul Tanko Al-Makura and his bride Aneesa” .
And there was a bit of math to the whole story, at least according to the press statement.
“How on earth would a wedding ceremony consume such amount of money which amounts to 70 per cent of the monthly allocation that accrues to the state from the federation account? Al-Makura was not a pauper before he became governor, so spending such an amount of money from his personal account is nothing, but as a prudent and accountable leader he cannot afford that extravagance” the statement said.
He asked members of the public to “disregard the misrepresentations of facts made to hoodwink them in order to achieved cheap political goals by his enemies.”