My Adminstration Spent N333m Not N64bn on Independence Celebration -Goodluck Jonathan

                         
Ex President Goodluck Jonathan has denied claims by Kaduna state governor El Rufai that his administration spent N64bn on Independence day celebration in 3 years
El Rufai said the Jonathan spent Jonathan spent N13 billion in 2011, N15 billion in 2012 and N14 billion in 2013 and N22 billion in 2011, bringing the total to N64 billion. Read Here
But responding,Jonathan said he spent N333.6m during this three years and corrected El rufai for delibrately lying and misleading the public to discredit his administration.Jonathan discribed El Rufai huge figure as a fabrication of lie to seek favour


In a statement in Abuja, through his former Minister of National Planning, Minister/Deputy Chairman, National Planning Commission, Dr. Abubakar Sulaiman, Jonathan said: “For the record, a breakdown of our anniversary spending between 2012 to 2014 amounted to N332.6 million.
“We challenge the Office of the Government of the Federation to publish these details for the consumption of the public.
“A breakdown of our spending for this event between 2012 and 2104 goes thus: 2012, N107.6 million; 2013, N45 million and 2014, 180 million. So, the question here is where did the billions, as claimed by el-Rufai, emanate from?”
Jonathan said though he did not have the figure for 2010 and 2011,but the expenditure of the two years fall within the range of what was spent within the last three years