FG Printed N60bn To Share In March – Obaseki

Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has said Nigeria is in “huge financial trouble” with the way the economy is run. Obaseki lamented that Nigeria was the only country in the world where the federal, state and local governments earn salaries at the end of the month, adding that the Federal Government printed N60bn as part of federal allocation for March. Speaking at the state transition committee stakeholders’ engagement, the governor said the economy was no longer what it used to be, with a rising debt profile and dependence on crude oil that was no longer sustainable. “Nigeria has changed. The economy of Nigeria is not the same again whether we like it or not. Everywhere else, the government relies on the people to produce taxes and that is what they use to run the local government, state and the federation. But with the way we run Nigeria, the country can go to sleep. At the end of the month, we just go to Abuja, collect money and we come back to spend. This April, we will go to Abuja and share.