As govs meet next week to finalize modalities for implementation
By Johnbosco Agbakwuru – Abuja
Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State has assured that the 36 state governors have given their backing to financial autonomy for state legislators and judiciary.
Governor Tambuwal, who gave the assurance after leading the Chairman of States Legislators Conference to meet with the Chief of Staff to the President, Professor Ibrahim Gambari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, said that modalities for the implementation of the financial autonomy would be finalized Thursday next week.
The Sokoto State Governor was accompanied by Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau state who was once a speaker of the state House of Assembly and his Zamfara State counterpart, Bello Matawalle.
Speaking to State House correspondents after the meeting on why the delegation was at the State House, Tambuwal, who was a former Speaker of the House of Representatives said the meeting was on the instruction of President Muhammedu Buhari.
He said, “We are here to meet the Chief of Staff on the instruction of Mr. President and you can see that the leadership of the Speakers Conference of the States of the Federation is here ably led by the Chairman.
“It’s all about Order 10 which has to do with the independence, financial autonomy of the legislature and the judiciary at the State level.
“So it’s a continuous meeting and we are going to meet next week Thursday when we hope to finalize on the framework and modalities of implementing the autonomy of the state legislature and the judicial.”
The governors have been accused of frustrating efforts to grant financial autonomy to state legislators and state judiciary, but Governor Tambuwal said that the governors were in support of financial autonomy for the state lawmakers and that there was no impediment towards the implementation of the President’s Executive Order.
“By next week Thursday we will be meeting to finalize the framework. We are all in support of it by the grace of God,” he said.
Fielding question on the controversy over the payment of N30,000 minimum wage as some states were yet to implement it, he said, “Well our Chairman (Chairman, Nigeria’s Governors Forum) and the team of governors forum are meeting with the labour, I don’t want to preempt that meeting please.
“The business of governors is to ensure that there is harmony in the country.”
President Buhari had on May 23, 2020, signed…
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