Nigerian Governors have hit back at President Muhammadu Buhari-led government for blaming them for not lifting Nigerians out of poverty and providing security.
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday accused Governors of the 36 states in the country of stealing from the local government allocations.


The President’s statement came hours after Minister of State for budget and national planning, Clement Agba blamed the Governors for poverty in the country.

Agba further stated that the governors had abandoned 72 per cent of Nigeria’s poor citizens in the rural areas, only to build airports and flyovers.


Governors in their reaction to the allegations said Nigerians are experiencing hardship because Buhari allegedly failed to fulfil his 2019 campaign promises.

The Director of Media and Public Affairs of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), Abdulrazaque Bello-Barkindo in a statement released on Saturday said the federal government should not blame the governors for its failure to lift Nigerians out of poverty, provide security and make life better for the people.

The statement reads, “It is the federal government that, in its campaign message in 2019, promised to take 100 million Nigerians out of poverty. Today, records show that more than 130 million Nigerians are living below the globally accepted poverty line of a dollar a day. Under the current administration that Mr Clement Agba is minister, the national cash cow, the NNPC, had failed to remit statutory allocations to states in several months.


“The situation had compelled governors to rely on other sources of revenue like; the SFTAS programme and other interventions anchored by the NGF, to fund states activities while monies budgeted for such federal ministries as agriculture, rural development and humanitarian affairs are not being deployed in the direction of the people.

“The Minister who should be responding to a question demanding to know what he and his colleague, the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, were doing to ameliorate the hardship Nigerians are facing attempted to defray the notion that rising levels of hunger and lack were peculiar to Nigeria.

“It is the opinion of the governors that the dereliction that the Minister is talking about lies, strictly speaking, at the doorstep of the federal government which he represents, in this scenario.

“First and foremost, the primary duty of any government is to ensure the security of lives and property, without which no sensible human activity takes place. But the federal government which is responsible for the security of lives and property has been unable to fulfil this covenant with the people thus allowing bandits, insurgents, and kidnappers to turn the country into a killing field, maiming and abducting people, in schools, market places and even on their farmlands.

“This dereliction of duty from the centre is the main reason why people have been unable to engage in regular agrarian activity and in commerce. Today, rural areas are insecure, markets are unsafe, surety of travel is improbable and life for the common people generally is harsh and brutish.

“The question is, how can a defenceless rural population maintain a sustainable lifestyle of peace and harmony when their lives are cut prematurely, and they wallow permanently in danger? How does a minister whose government has been unable to ensure security, law and order have the temerity to blame governors?


“Two states, Edo and Akwa Ibom had promptly responded to the vituperations of the Minister. According to Akwa Ibom State, what determines poverty and unemployment in a country is its economic policy, which is set, normally by the central government nationally.

“Akwa Ibom insists that the federal government cannot abdicate its responsibility by blaming states and goes further to ask, albeit rhetorically, how economic policies in a state drive the dollar which determines almost every aspect of our national existence.”

Source: https:///It-Is-You-That-Failed-To-Fulfil-Your-Promises-To-Nigerians-Govs-Hit-Back-At-Buhari

There is a reason the governors are saying this. They know their unintelligent indigenes will rather focus on Buhari than demand accountability from them.

No governor ever complained of non disbursement of allocations to states and LG.

A governor won election by sharing 1 litre of kerosene to some households. Since then, the next project the governor embarked on was to kick start award of N500 to any woman who put to bed. After that, nothing more was ever heard.

But indigenes of the state have been insulting Buhari and Tinubu for stealing their future. That is clear display of stark illiteracy. They expect Buhari to start sinking boreholes and repairing roads in their communities.

Why not focus on the allegations of misappropriation of LGA funds

Both El Rufai and Wike had boldly told the world that LGA has full autonomy in their states

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Moh247:
Why not focus on the allegations of misappropriation of LGA funds

Both El Rufai and Wike had boldly told the world that LGA has full autonomy in their states

The governors have studied how unintelligent the indigenes are. They will not discuss how allocations were expended. Rather, they twist the issue in such a way that the unintelligent indigenes redirect their focus to Buhari.

Administratively, states are independent of federal govt. But ask them for accountability, they change the whole story. Imagine a state govt worker insulting Buhari for non payment of some allowances.

The question is, how can a defenceless rural population maintain a sustainable lifestyle of peace and harmony when their lives are cut prematurely, and they wallow permanently in danger?


President Buhari still looking for excuses after seven years. Incompetence is a disease

slivertongue:
The question is, how can a defenceless rural population maintain a sustainable lifestyle of peace and harmony when their lives are cut prematurely, and they wallow permanently in danger?


President Buhari still looking for excuses after seven years. Incompetence is a disease

Still wondering why it is hard for Urchins to admit that they have failed woefully

Sweet .. everybody prick done dey rise ...

Judicial prick done rise

Now governors self done dey rise thier prick

It's about to be a Group Intimacy! Hahahaha

Buhari is really looking for what/who to transfer his failure to. It has finally Dawn on him that Nigerians will only remember him for the sufferings he brought on them for 8 terrible years.
May buhari and his entire team not happen to Nigeria again.

LeoDeKing:
There is a reason the governors are saying this. They know their unintelligent indigenes will rather focus on Buhari than demand accountability from them.

No governor ever complained of non disbursement of allocations to states and LG.

A governor won election by sharing 1 litre of kerosene to some households. Since then, the next project the governor embarked on was to kick start award of N500 to any woman who put to bed. After that, nothing more was ever heard.

But indigenes of the state have been insulting Buhari and Tinubu for stealing their future. That is clear display of stark illiteracy. They expect Buhari to start sinking boreholes and repairing roads in their communities.

Wat a jobless mudafucker. At ur age u are still chasing ftc. Only u ftc on virtually all topics on nairaland. Once again congratulations on your achievements. Jobless mudafucker

Confusion in the camp of the enemy.
Peter Obi has woken them to the reality of poverty in the country.

PDP is a very dull opposition party. Tinubu gaffes are enough weapon to use in confounding the party of jihadists

slivertongue:
The question is, how can a defenceless rural population maintain a sustainable lifestyle of peace and harmony when their lives are cut prematurely, and they wallow permanently in danger?


President Buhari still looking for excuses after seven years. Incompetence is a disease

what is the work of the governors

Igba123:
Buhari is really looking for what/who to transfer his failure to. It has finally Dawn on him that Nigerians will only remember him for the sufferings he brought on them for 8 terrible years.
May buhari and his entire team not happen to Nigeria again.

just tell me what is the purpose of voting your governors?

uba1991:
what is the work of the governors

Defence is for the FG

slivertongue:



Defence is for the FG

I only ask for the work of the governors.

uba1991:
I only ask for the work of the governors.

Pls Read the constitution

I'm not going to look it up but the the finance ministry has been consistent in monthly disbursements to all 36 states. The amounts are easy to locate online. Also I remember the PMB administration making sure that states got their adequate share of the Paris Funds and quite a few of them still carried worker's salary arrears. A real sorry lot of human beings.

slivertongue:



Pls Read the constitution

so you don't know the reason why you votes for your governors?