Buhari, Osinbajo in first meeting with state governors

President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo had a meeting behind closed doors with all 36 state governors.

The meeting, which was held  inside the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa, is the first of its kind since Buhari’s inauguration.

Punch reported that the meeting ended with a resolution to end the financial crisis being faced by some state governments.

Zamfara State Governor, Abdulazeez Yari, who disclosed this to State House correspondents at the end of the meeting, said the governors asked for the refund of federal government projects they carried out in their states rather than bailouts.

Yari, who is also the Chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum, said the governors also asked that the tax paid by the Nigeria Natural Liquefied Gas Company (NLNG) be paid into the Federation Account and be shared.

He also added that they asked the federal government to ensure that all monies are paid into the Federation Account for sharing as stipulated by the constitution.

Among state governors who attended the meeting were Rivers, Ogun, Imo, Gombe, Benue, Delta, Niger, Kano, Katsina, Zamfara, Kogi, Borno and Jigawa.

Others were governors of  Kebbi, Kwara, Taraba, Ekiti, Ondo, Kaduna, Oyo, Osun, Edo, Anambra, Sokoto, Ebonyi, Lagos, Adamawa, Cross Rivers, Akwa Ibom and  Yobe States.

Plateau and Bayelsa States were represented by their deputy governors.

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