Former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Dr Olisa
Agbakoba, has said that the 36 state governors in the country are not doing
anything.
Agbakoba claimed that “all they do is go to Abuja and
collect a stipend every month.”
He stated this on Friday while fielding questions on
Channels Television’s Politics Today programme.
The senior lawyer suggested to President Bola Tinubu that he
should assign responsibility by devolving political authority to the other
tiers of government.
This, he said, is the only way people will benefit from the
dividends of democracy.
Agbakoba said: “I would always want any Nigerian president
to succeed because the people who are going to benefit from a successful
president are far too many.
“There are 250 million Nigerians hoping for a good
government. So I can only wish that the President would do far more than he has
done in trying to give Nigeria a sense of direction, a sense of development.
“The 774 local governments, the 36 state governors, don’t do
anything. All they do is go to Abuja and collect a stipend every month.
“I want to see President Tinubu assign responsibility by
devolving political authority to these other tiers of government so that
development can come bottom up, not top down, and in that way, people will
benefit from the dividends.”
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