Governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole has on Thursday accused the former president Goodluck Jonathan of sharing ecological funds under his administration to PDP Governors adding that he grossly favoured state governors on the platform of his political party.
The Edo State governor specifically accused the ex-president of sharing the sum of N2 billion from the Ecological fund among PDP governors noting that he excluded opposition party, All Progressive Congress, APC Governors and their states.
The claims were laid while the Governor was speaking with State House correspondents after a meeting between state governors and the President, Muhammadu Buhari, at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
Oshiomhole said: “We are very lucky to have President Buhari at this time. I have been here now for seven-and-half years and I have had the opportunity to work with three Presidents, that is the truth.
“Under the last President, it would have been impossible for us to approach Abuja to give us support because we have personal challenges.
“We would have been given lectures on fiscal responsibility and all those kind of talks, even though the wastage was more here than any other place at that time.
“We now have a President who recognises that he is not just President of the Federal Government, he is the President of the federation of which the states are part and regardless of our political affiliation.
“This is very important. Everybody is able to ask this President to give him support and he is giving, whereas in the recent past, some PDP governors got N2bn from Ecological Fund. We APC governors were not given but we promised to be different and I am happy this President is showing that difference.”
Speaking on the proposed minimum wage demand by the Nigerian Labour Congress, The Edo state governor said: “I have not seen the document proposing a new minimum wage but believing in your judgment that it is a proposal, from my own experience there is always a difference between a proposal and a final agreement.
“Man proposes, God disposes. In the real world, nobody gets what he wants, you get what you negotiate. Any day any time, wake me up, I believe in a living wage.”
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