Tinubu cuts president’s entourage to 20, VP, First Lady get 5 officials

Tinubu cuts president’s entourage to 20, VP, First Lady get 5 officials

President Bola Tinubu has directed that all the entourage to state and international events be reduced by 60 per cent.

The new directive aimed at cutting cost of governance shows that the President would have 20 officials; Vice President and First Lady, five.

The President also directed that during local trip, the security details should be drafted from the host state.

Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, disclosed this while briefing State House correspondents in Abuja on Tuesday.

He said the President would henceforth travel with only 20 officials; the Vice President, five officials; the First Lady and the wife of the Vice President, also five officials.

For local trips, the number of the entourage of the President has been reduced to 25; the Vice President 15; the First Lady and the wife of the VP, 10.

The presidential spokesman said that the essence of the reduction was to bring total sanity and prudence in the management of resources.

He also said that henceforth, ministers delegation for foreign trips would be a maximum of four officials, while the heads of the Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs would travel with a maximum of two officials.