Governors Reject Blame over Accountability for Fuel Subsidy Removal Proceeds

*To adopt national affordable CNG transit programme

Chuks Okocha in Abuja

The 36 state governors, under the aegis of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), early on Thursday rejected allegations that sub-national governments had failed to properly account for funds received from the removal of fuel subsidy.

Chairman of the Forum, Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara State, who spoke through Governor Douye Diri of Bayelsa State after the Forum’s third meeting in Abuja, dismissed suggestions that states should accept blame over the management of subsidy removal proceeds.

Asked whether the Forum would accept blame that sub nationals had not been properly accountable for funds obtained from the removal of fuel subsidy, he said: “That cannot be true. That cannot be true. But we’ll leave that debate for another day.”