Governor Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra State said in his bid to cut the cost of governance, he has denied himself of salary since he assumed office two years ago.
Soludo made this known on Sunday in Akwa, the state capital, during the celebration of two years anniversary of his administration.
The governor also said his wife, being the first lady of Anambra, does not have an official car.
“As I speak to you, I am not taking any salary, I am not paid any salary by the Anambra State government.
“Even the First Lady of Anambra doesn’t have any official car, she still drives my personal vehicles,” the former Central Bank of Nigeria stated.
He said, the spartan simplicity was born out of reducing cost of governance rather than embarking on borrowing, saying: “Any governor, that comes floods you with offers for borrowing and so on and so forth, but we decided for the first two years to demonstrate something, capacity to do more with less.
“And so far as has been said, for two years, despite receiving about 25 per cent in real terms or in dollar terms of what was in the past, we have chosen deliberately not to borrow.
“I have been asked severally; ‘how do you do without borrowing and with the difficult circumstances?’ And my answer is that we are doing so because we are executing the most austere measure of government ever.”
