Senator Gbenga Daniels rejects pension payment as former governor

One time governor of Ogun state Otumba Gbenga Daniels has written to Ogun state governor Dapo Abiodun rejecting the statutory pension and gratuity as a former governor.

*The full text of his rejection*

After my inauguration at the Senate, I wrote H.E Prince Dapo Abiodun MFR, CON on June 14, 2023, to notify him of my decision to have the monthly payment of N676,376.95kobo being gross payment for my pension and allowances as former governor of the Ogun State suspended immediately.

This decision, I made, in good conscience, moral principles and guiding ethics.

It is also important to state that this is the only payment and package I get from the state government as a former governor.

With this rejection the good people of Ogun state are happy and give kudos to Gbenga Daniels as they see the rejection as good omen and patrotic. This is in the sense that the money he rejected will now be ploughed back to the state for other developmental projects.