Governors from the 36 States of the Federation under the aegis of the Nigerian Governors Forum have scheduled a crucial meeting next week to review…

Governors from the 36 States of the Federation under the aegis of the Nigerian Governors Forum have scheduled a crucial meeting next week to review the judgment of the Supreme Court that granted autonomy to local government councils in the country.

Addressing State House Correspondents after a meeting with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), and Governor of Kwara, AbdulRazaq AbdulRahman, said governor who have been using their resources to bail out local governments have been relieve of a burden.

The NGF Chairman also affirmed that the state chief executives were comfortable with the Supreme Court judgment.

“We welcome the ruling of the Supreme and our Attorney Generals have applied for the enrollment order, which we’ll study carefully.”

“But by and large, governors are happy with the devolution of power in respect to local government autonomy. It relieves the burden on governors. Our people really don’t know how much states spend in bailing out local governments, and that’s the issue there.”

The Kwara governor affirmed that the NGF had requested for the enrollment of the judgment and would be reviewing it to decide the way forward.

“The forum will meet next Wednesday, to look at the issue wholly and then come up with a resolution on that.”

“Like I said, we haven’t seen the enrollment of the court order and so we really don’t know what is in there,” he stated.

As for Kwara State in particular, AbdulRahman said the judgment would not negatively affect it as the state has not been tampering with council funds.

“It’s not going to affect the state we’ve never tampered with local government funds. So it’s going to continue. What the local governments have to do is to manage themselves, especially with the oncoming minimum wage, to manage their affairs and make sure salaries are paid, traditional rulers get their 5% and those are the main issues,” he said.

The NGF boss, who was flanked by his Imo State counterpart, Hope Uzodimma, and Bauchi, Bala Mohammed, said they were at the Presidential Villa to see the president on various issues, adding: “We’ve seen the President on various issues from minimum wage, which he met with labor yesterday, the Supreme Court ruling and other national issues that concern states as well. It’s omnibus.”

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COMRADES, I don't think Nigerian governors will obey this order, they will definitely come up with a strategy to continue with the old tactics

lol, pained

They have been forced to talk. Una cash cow don dey disappear

What again do you want to review?

This man don hear from Soludo?

Hahahaha 🤣
Jokers

Happy for una

Make una dey decive una self as if they are happy

dre11:
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Pretenders they are really pain criminals.

Do you know how much they collected on behalf of local government, that is their end.

vowiski:
lol, pained

Supreme court decision surprise them, is all over for them. No more Lg allocation again to Governors

Una say dem relieve una of 'Burden' but still talk say una go review the matter, Abeg which kind opata be this?

LG na burden but una refuse to do LG elections abi?

774 + 6 new multi millionaires have have been born 🤔

It's like you don't understand the judgement terms
What's there not to obey? FG will no longer release LG monies to them. LG allocations now go directly to the LGs... It doesn't pass through the governors ...

Melagros:
COMRADES, I don't think Nigerian governors will obey this order, they will definitely come up with a strategy to continue with the old tactics

Next should be that so called security vote or what do they call it ? That should be amended and looked into also

clowns 🤡 🤣 😂

Na lie
Be deceiving yourselves

dre11:
Governors from the 36 States of the Federation under the aegis of the Nigerian Governors Forum have scheduled a crucial meeting next week to review…

Lies! The governors who had dipped their hands into the LG accounts are rogues and should be sued for doing exactly that. All the Supreme Court did was re-assert the Constitution on this issue highlighting the unconstitutionality of the conduct of said governors.

Hmmm wahala be like wetin again...?

I can see the tears in their eyes, clowns!

The height of pretence! If the governors are comfortable with local government autonomy, why, in the first instance, did they oppose it?

Liars . Why did you take the FG to Court in the first place?

dre11:
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Why will traditional rulers take 5% of the allocation?


On what basis and for what?

The Governors are not happy. They will just abandon their responsibilities and force the local govt to take their responsibilities up for them while stealing the money.

Burden indeed. Thieves

Listen to them.
Is it now that our Governors remember that the traditional rulers are to collect 5% from local government allocations? They are planning of using the traditional rulers to victimized the elected local government executives.

Dem dey disguise...

zikmano:
The height of pretence! If the governors are comfortable with local government autonomy, why, in the first instance, did they oppose it?

They did not oppose it. Rather they used 419 to rob you all!

Awon were!!!!Iro pa yin