The National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC Nentawe Yilwatda has absolved President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the federal government of the economic hardship facing many Nigerians, saying the state governors should be held accountable.
According to Prof. Yilwatda, the state governors should be able to do more for the peoples since they are now receiving more funds from the federal government.
He spoke in Abuja, the nation’s capital during he unveiling of a book, “Vicious Red Circle”, authored by Ambassador Alex Ugochukwu Oriaku.
The APC boss spoke amid the gloomy economic situation in the country, as many families are struggling to survive, a situation they blame on the harsh economic policies of the Tinubu’s administration.
But Prof. Yilwatda said the governors should be held accountable for the resources they are getting which he said, should be used to ameliorate the current sufferings in the land.
He explained that the share of allocation to state have risen “four times’ wondering what the state governors are using the resources accruing to them for.
“No governor in Nigeria knows that two years ago, there was a share of about 400 billion Naira per month. But today, the last share they did was 2.2 trillion Naira,” he said.
“No governor in Nigeria today collects less than three times, up to four times what they used to collect before. None.
“So they can do more for their people. No governor collects lower than three times. None. They are focusing now on bigger projects. And to me, this is a turnaround that we need in governors.”
President Tinubu had earlier in the year charged the state governors to do more for their peoples using the abundant resources available to them.
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