With the tripple-fold increase in monthly allocations to all tiers of government, the National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Prof. Nentawe Yilwatda, has asked Nigerians to hold their state governors and Local Government Area (LGA) Chairmen accountable.
He stated that no Governor and the LGA chairmen get less than triple or four times of what they used to get as monthly allocations before President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration.
The Chairman spoke on Monday in Abuja at a book launch titled “Vicious Red Circle”, written by Amb. Alex Ugochukwu Oriaku.
He said: “No governor in Nigeria. Who knows that two years ago, there was a share of about N400 billion per month. But today, the last share they did was N2.2 trillion. No governor in Nigeria today collects less than three times, up to four times what they used to collect before. None.
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“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.
“I would say, talk to your governors. Talk to your Local Government Chairmen. Let them do more.”
While giving indices that the current administration was getting economic policies right, the APC Chairman said it is his dream that Nigeria move forward under his party.
“It’s my dream that I have a party that is driving Nigeria in the right direction. To give Nigeria not just optics alone, but a reality that Nigeria is better and open.
“We can turn around the corner. And as a political party, the APC, we like doing the unthinkable. We make changes that look unreasonable to the eye of people, but deep within, and seated in our hearts, are things that we can make changes that can improve the life of our people. That’s at the centre of our hearts. And that’s why we’re working as citizens with the economy, and everybody knows the numbers are changing.
“The World Bank, the IMF, said we can’t grow up to 3% GDP per annum. We are doing 4.23% now. It was predicted that by now, we can’t do more than 1 million barrels per day. We are doing 1.7, 1.8 million barrels per day. And I can keep giving the numbers. But these numbers must reflect on the people,” Yilwatda stated.
