Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State was full of praises for President Muhammadu Buhari for his financial support to the governors of the 36 states of the federation without prejudice.
Oshiomole compared this to the former President Jonathan administration and said it would have been impossible. The governor who spoke on Thursday said that the Jonathan government would have subjected the governors to lectures on fiscal responsibility and left the states on their own.
He accused the former president of sharing N2bn from the Ecological Fund to PDP governors alone without considering giving same to governors of the All Progressives Congress(APC). He said, “We are very lucky to have President Buhari at this time. I have been here now for seven-and-half years and I have had the opportunity to work with three Presidents, that is the truth.
Under the last President, it would have been impossible for us to approach Abuja to give us support because we have personal challenges. We would have been given lectures on fiscal responsibility and all those kind of talks, even though the wastage was more here (federal level) than any other place at that time.
“We now have a President who recognises that he is not just President of the Federal Government, he is the President of the federation of which the states are part and regardless of our political affiliations. This is very important.
Everybody is able to ask this President to give him support and he is giving, whereas in the recent past, some PDP governors got N2bn from the Ecological Fund. We the APC governors were not given but we promised to be different and I am happy this President is showing that difference.”
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