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Moroccans. I love Moroccans. They are a fine people with a very rich history and culture. But in the last six decades their country has been in the news, often for the wrong reasons. They are now known for being intolerant, divisive, quarrelsome, arrogant, but subservient and unscrupulous. When it was to host the 2026 […]
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Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar defeated Rotimi Amaechi and Mohammed Hayatu-Deen to clinch the ADC presidential ticket on Wednesday.
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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.”
