Nyesom Wike, the governor of Rivers State, has pressed President Buhari to identify the state governors who misappropriated funding for local governments.
At a gathering on Thursday, the President made the accusation that certain state governors misuse funds allocated from the federation account to local government councils.
In addition, he charged that the Governors had the council leaders agree to have accepted the entire budget by signing commitments for money they had not yet received.
However, Governor Wike asserted on Friday at the commissioning of a project in Port Harcourt that since taking office in 2015, he has never touched funds designated for the local government.
The governor further asserted that none of the PDP’s G5 governors had ever altered local government funding.
He then challenged the President to name the governors who tamper with local government allocations.
Wike said ” I challenge Mr. President, you must come out and tell Nigerians those committing this offence.
“You said the Governors are taking local government funds. I want to say, in the name of Almighty God, I’ve never touched local government funds one day. I have never and I have no reason to do that.
“So Mr President, tell us who are those people? You know them, tell us.
“I’m not one of those governors. Mr President tells Nigerians that the Integrity Governors are not part of them.
“Do us a favour to announce all those states that are taking local government funds”.
