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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors’ Forum has declared that none of its members is involved in the alleged diversion of funds meant for local government administration in their states.
While condemning the suppression of local government through funds diversion, the governors challenged the Federal Government to publish names of state governors found guilty.
This was part of the resolutions made at the first post-inauguration meeting of the PDP Governors Forum held at the Bayelsa State governor’s lodge in Abuja Thursday night.
Reading the communique of the marathon meeting on Friday morning, Bayelsa State governor, Seriake Dickson, the chairman of the forum, said the PDP governors condemned the issue of local government funds diversion in a strong term.
He said, “We dealt with the allegation of alleged diversion of local government funds by state governments. And we condemned it in a very strong term, we as governors on the platform of the PDP want to make it clear that no PDP governor is involved in this allegation of diverting local government funds for whatever purpose.
"In our case, the reverse is the case. It is the state government that has been supporting and subsidizing funding for the local government. So we call on the federal government and agency in charge to name the state governments and tell us the date and the people who were in charge as the time when this diversion took place.”
The governors, also at the meeting, declared their readiness to implement and pay the new N30,000 minimum wage to workers in their states while calling on Federal Government to review the current revenue sharing formula.
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