Bwala made the remark against the backdrop of allocations from the Federal Government to state governments.
Posting on X, the presidential aide wrote: “The President is not a prefect to the governors. That is why I talk about federalism. They have State Houses of Assembly. At the centre, whatever the President provides for implementation goes through ministers and the National Assembly, which exercises oversight.
“Here, your House of Assembly should also exercise oversight over appropriations that come to the state. You are to call them to account. There is ₦600 million. By this month, another ₦600 million will come into this local government. The money is here.
“The President does not need to come down here and start fighting the governor. Between January and March this year, ₦2.26 billion came to the local government. If you divide it, you will understand what has come in.
“That money would have revived primary healthcare. That money would have put primary schools in place. That money would have taken care of some construction projects. That money would have improved law and order, employment, recruitment, empowerment, and the mobilisation of vigilantes to serve as a community vanguard and first line of defence for society.
“That money would have also provided prescription drugs and subsidised healthcare for the people.
“Now, if we do not hold our governors at the federated level accountable, even if the President sends $30 billion here, we will still be having the same conversation.”
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Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof Joash Amupitan, says the 2023 IREV glitch has been eliminated.
Prof Amupitan expressed this confidence on Sunday during Citizens Town Hall Meeting on Electoral Act 2026 held in Abuja, the nation’s capital city.
According to him, such a glitch will not surface in Nigeria again.
“The glitch in INEC IREV in 2013 has been eliminated, by God’s grace, it will not surface in Nigeria again,” he said.
Recall that the Senate approved the electronic transmission of election results, with manual collation retained as a backup.
DAILY POST had reported that President Bola Tinubu has signed the Electoral Act, 2022 (Repeal and Re-Enactment) Bill 2026 into law barely 24 hours after it was passed by the National Assembly.
