Tobi Soniyi in Abuja
Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, on Thursday said that All Progressives Congress (APC) states were exempted from the N2 billion ecological fund released to Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) states by former President Goodluck Jonathan.
According to him, the last administration was discriminatory against some state governors in the distribution of bailout funds.
He spoke with State House correspondents at the end of the governors’ meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Oshiomhole said that unlike Jonathan, Buhari,
in the face of the worsening state of the economy, has remained a rallying point for all state governments in the country irrespective of political affiliation.
He said: “We are very lucky to have President Buhari at this time. I have been here now for seven and half years and I have had the opportunity to work with three Presidents, that is the truth.
“Under the last President it would have been impossible for us to approach Abuja to give us support because we have personal challenges. We have been given lectures on fiscal responsibility and all those kind of talks, even though the wastage was more here than any other place at that time.
“We have a president who recognize that he is not just President of the federal government he is the president of the federation of which the states are part and regardless of our political affiliation, this is very important, everybody is able to ask this President to give him support and he is giving.
“Whereas, in the recent past some PDP governors got N2 billion from ecology fund, we APC governors were not given. But we promised to be different and I am happy this president is showing that difference.”
On the new proposal for increase of minimum wage by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), he said that believed in a living wage for workers.
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