The decision by Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State to shun the sponsoring of the state leg of the Good Governance Tour organised by the Minister of Information and Orientation, Mr. Labaran Maku, may not have gone down well with the Federal Government spokesperson.

National Mirror gathered yesterday at the Government House in Benin that Maku did not only keep Oshiomhole waiting for an already scheduled courtesy visit, but failed to show up before he unilaterally rescheduled the same for another day, which may not hold as the governor already has an event scheduled for about the same time.

It was learnt that Oshiomhole, who had spent part of the weekend in his hometown, rushed down to the Government House yesterday morning for the minister’s visit fixed for 1:30pm. As Governor Oshiomhole waited endlessly for the visiting team that never showed up, his aides learnt later that the minister could no longer come as scheduled because he was inspecting a Federal Government project at Sobe and that he had decided to reschedule the visit for another day.

Sources said the governor thereafter travelled to Abuja for the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) meeting scheduled for yesterday night. It will be recalled that Oshiomhole last weekend rejected a N130 million proposal from the minister asking the state government to bankroll the Edo State leg of the tour after describing it as a waste of public fund.

Oshiomhole had said: “The resources accruable to Edo State cannot afford to accommodate the expenses of hosting the Minister of Information and his good governance tour team. Why should I take Edo State tax payers money to finance a Federal Government project? I don’t need Abuja to help me to tell Edo State people what I am doing in the state. Anytime a state official goes for official duty in Abuja, the state takes responsibilities for the expenses.

So, I expect the Federal Government to finance its own official tour.” National Mirror, however, learnt that the proposed tour would have cost the government about N180 million, which the governor said he would find difficult to reconcile with the state’s lean resources. Owing to the governor’s refusal to sponsor the state leg of the tour, Maku decided to still go ahead with the inspection, but with plans to cover only Federal Government projects in the state.

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It was wrong and unwise for Oshiomhole to have declined receiving this body.Yes,you can decide not to pay for their visit,which is a sound argument, but making it impossible to inspect state projects is wrong.
We all have our opinions how Nigeria should be run, but if this tour have been going round the country to identify what the other governors are doing as well as federal projects in the states, Oshiomhole was wrong to have become so uncooperative and denied the people of Edo State the opportunity to ask questions and find out what was happening in the state.It all smacks of someone with skeletons in his cupboard desperately trying to hide something.Anyhow, the deed is done.

Maku and the federal government are a bunch of uninformed dolts.
He wants to visit all the states for a ' good governance' tour and then what? Declare that all the governors are working.

If he sets foot on my state, na stone I go use welcome am.

Chima_Adeoye: It was wrong and unwise for Oshiomhole to have declined receiving this body.Yes,you can decide not to pay for their visit,which is a sound argument, but making it impossible to inspect state projects is wrong.
We all have our opinions how Nigeria should be run, but if this tour have been going round the country to identify what the other governors are doing as well as federal projects in the states, Oshiomhole was wrong to have become so uncooperative and denied the people of Edo State the opportunity to ask questions and find out what was happening in the state.It all smacks of someone with skeletons in his cupboard desperately trying to hide something.Anyhow, the deed is done.

After reading your rendition. You deserve to be paid for the month and be promoted to project manager PDP 40 laptop group

Chima_Adeoye: It was wrong and unwise for Oshiomhole to have declined receiving this body.Yes,you can decide not to pay for their visit,which is a sound argument, but making it impossible to inspect state projects is wrong.
We all have our opinions how Nigeria should be run, but if this tour have been going round the country to identify what the other governors are doing as well as federal projects in the states, Oshiomhole was wrong to have become so uncooperative and denied the people of Edo State the opportunity to ask questions and find out what was happening in the state.It all smacks of someone with skeletons in his cupboard desperately trying to hide something.Anyhow, the deed is done.

Sorry, but your response is very pathetic.

Chima_Adeoye: It was wrong and unwise for Oshiomhole to have declined receiving this body.Yes,you can decide not to pay for their visit,which is a sound argument, but making it impossible to inspect state projects is wrong.
We all have our opinions how Nigeria should be run, but if this tour have been going round the country to identify what the other governors are doing as well as federal projects in the states, Oshiomhole was wrong to have become so uncooperative and denied the people of Edo State the opportunity to ask questions and find out what was happening in the state.It all smacks of someone with skeletons in his cupboard desperately trying to hide something.Anyhow, the deed is done.

I think you are wrong bro. Gov Oshiomole lives, eats, sleeps and wake up with is subject 24/7. He plans with them and execute with them. They are the last thing he sees before going to bed and the first thing he sees when he wakes up.

Do you need someone to tell you what your father is doing for you? The tour should be a FG thing for FG projects. Inspecting states projects show the tour is a 'farce'.

Oshiomole was on point. So is Wole Soyinka, Fashola and other well meaning Nigerians that were bold enough to call a spade by it's name.

The good governance tour was conceived by Labaran Maku to amass funds for his Governorship ambition in 2015. GEJ being silly and clueless and presiding over a weak federal govt bereft of ideas and desperately looking for any positive news to boost it's dying image approved it without giving it a second thought.

Well, the Governors' forum (which oshiomole is a member) may have agreed when the idea was tabled before them, but I believe Maku did not provide the cost details to be incurred on the said trip. Most of them Governors were neck dip before realizing what they got themselves into and could not back out for fear of the negative news it might attract to the federal govt.

Learnt from a reliable source that Maku came up with a budget of N180m to be coughed out by Edo state Govt as her contribution towards the execution of the tour in Edo state.

This over bloated amount was reported to have angered Oshiomole and resulted in his refusal to fund the GGT trip.

I knew the whole event was a charade when i watched Maku on NTA commending Uduaghan and giving him a passs mark for the GREAT transformational development in Delta state.

Imagine how much Liebaran Maku would have realized by the time he's done touring 36 states plus the FCT. Indeed it is good to work with a boss who's Intelligent quotient is less than 2.5. Maku simply saw an opportunity and he ceased it as a sharp man.

The only regret as always, is: It's all at the expense of the common Nigerian.

Chima_Adeoye: It was wrong and unwise for Oshiomhole to have declined receiving this body.Yes,you can decide not to pay for their visit,which is a sound argument, but making it impossible to inspect state projects is wrong.
We all have our opinions how Nigeria should be run, but if this tour have been going round the country to identify what the other governors are doing as well as federal projects in the states, Oshiomhole was wrong to have become so uncooperative and denied the people of Edo State the opportunity to ask questions and find out what was happening in the state.It all smacks of someone with skeletons in his cupboard desperately trying to hide something.Anyhow, the deed is done.

your kind d reason we are backward in dis country

Chima_Adeoye: It was wrong and unwise for Oshiomhole to have declined receiving this body.Yes,you can decide not to pay for their visit,which is a sound argument, but making it impossible to inspect state projects is wrong.
We all have our opinions how Nigeria should be run, but if this tour have been going round the country to identify what the other governors are doing as well as federal projects in the states, Oshiomhole was wrong to have become so uncooperative and denied the people of Edo State the opportunity to ask questions and find out what was happening in the state.It all smacks of someone with skeletons in his cupboard desperately trying to hide something.Anyhow, the deed is done.

SMH.
well, human being are diverse. Only God knows how you come to conclusion with this comment.

Chima_Adeoye: It was wrong and unwise for Oshiomhole to have declined receiving this body.Yes,you can decide not to pay for their visit,which is a sound argument, but making it impossible to inspect state projects is wrong.
We all have our opinions how Nigeria should be run, but if this tour have been going round the country to identify what the other governors are doing as well as federal projects in the states, Oshiomhole was wrong to have become so uncooperative and denied the people of Edo State the opportunity to ask questions and find out what was happening in the state.It all smacks of someone with skeletons in his cupboard desperately trying to hide something.Anyhow, the deed is done.

Chima, I buy your contribution to this tread. Some people don’t see the several “Wrong and Unwise” decisions of Oshio Baba that we in Benin City see every Day. He had long ago arrogated to himself the monopoly of wisdom and Knowledge. It is very unfortunate.

who is shunning who? is it not the other way around?