PDP governors reply APC: FG not secretly funding us

Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau State and Governor Babangida Aliyu of Niger State on Thursday faulted the claim credited to the Progressives Governors’ Forum that the Federal Government was starving the All Progressives Congress governments of fund.

They spoke in separate interviews with State House correspondents after attending a meeting of the National Economic Council at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Rising from their meeting in Ilorin on Wednesday, the governors were reported to have said that the Federal Government was funding the Peoples Democratic Party states to the detriment of the APC states.



But Jang and Aliyu said making such a statement was tantamount to mere playing of politics.

Jang, who is also a factional chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum, said all states of the federation were experiencing the negative effects of dwindling federal allocation.

He said it would be wrong to accuse the Federal Government of funding only the PDP states.

“That is mere playing of politics. It is not true that the Federal Government is funding only the PDP states. It is not true,” he said.

The governor added that the lesson in the development to all state governments was to stop excessive reliance on the monthly federal allocation.

Aliyu also confirmed that there was no truth in the APC governors’ claim.

He agreed with Jang that it was time for state governments to increase their Internally Generated Revenue drive in order to reduce their reliance on monthly allocations.