Governors attempting to control the federal government – former petroleum minister

Jibril Aminu, a former minister of petroleum has advised against state governors’ unlimited access to public funds.

Speaking on Saturday, January 23, in Yola at the third edition of Adamawa Community Dialogue, organised by an NGO, Adamawa Community Advancement Initiative (ACAI), Aminu lamented the way governors handle state and local government resources like their personal property, NAN reports.

Jibril Aminu wants Nigerian governors’ access to public funds curbed

According to him, if the country must progress, a situation where a governor could collect and spend state resources at will without recourse to due process needed to be checked.

Aminu, a former senator said: “A governor just sends for the Accountant-General, who very often is his best friend; maybe his cousin too to bring money.”

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He accused governors of hijacking council funds and even attempting to control the federal government through the governors’ forum.

The former senator criticised politics of sentiments, saying, “Ethnicity, religion and other pettiness are all symptoms of non-performance; people who fail use ethnicity and religion as something to hang on.”

He therefore called on Nigerians remain resolute and determined to reject negative thinking and work towards nation building, while also urging them not to allow the current challenges facing the nation kill their spirit.

 

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