President Muhammadu Buhari met with
governors of states this afternoon to compare notes on the present economic
challenges.
At the meeting, issues bothering on
bailout for states and how the Federal Government would refund state
governments that had carried out some federal government projects.
Ahead of the meeting the Nigeria
Governors Forum met late
Wednesday to decide a common agenda.
The
meeting between President Buhari and the state governors, which started at
10am ended with a resolution to end the financial crisis being faced by
some state governments,
The
Zamfara state Governor, Abdulazeez Yari, stated this while addressing state
house correspondents at the end of the meeting.
According
to Yari, instead of bailouts, the governors requested for the refund of Federal
Government projects they carried out in their states. He also said the
governors asked that the tax paid by the Nigeria Natural Liquefied Gas Company
be paid into the Federation Account and be shared as stipulated by the
constitution.
The states
present at the meeting are Rivers, Ogun, Imo, Gombe, Benue, Delta, Niger, Kano,
Katsina, Zamfara, Kogi, Borno and Jigawa states. Others were governors of
Kebbi, Kwara, Taraba, Ekiti, Ondo, Kaduna, Oyo, Osun, Edo, Anambra, Sokoto,
Ebonyi, Lagos, Adamawa, Cross Rivers, Akwa Ibom and Yobe States.
While
Plateau and Bayelsa states were represented by their deputy governors, Abia,
Bauchi, Enugu, and Nasarawa states were however absent from the meeting.
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