Nigeria’s Ex-leader, Buhari Ejected Over Unpaid N20m Rent.

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.