By Dirisu Yakubu
ABUJA- Governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic, Party, PDP, Thursday, flayed Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu over the statement he authored on behalf of President Muhammadu Buhari wherein he said the PDP governors were seeking more money “for their own profligate political ends.”
Vanguard reports that the PDP governors had in a communiqué after their meeting in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom state capital, recently, called on the Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission, RMAFC, to review revenue sharing formula with a view to making more money available to states to execute their developmental projects.
They also called for the appreciation of the naira against the dollar among other recommendations.
The Presidency in a statement signed by Shehu however argued that “an appreciated currency will benefit those spending on luxury items abroad; being the leading desire of a typical PDP governor.”
In a statement signed by…
Source: Vanguard Newspaper
