With Subsidy Windfall, States Have No Excuses For Lack Of Development – Wike

Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Barr. Nyesom Wike, has stressed the request for states to support a harmonious narration with the national government, careless of governmental affiliations, saying specified practice accelerates improvement astatine subnational levels.

Speaking connected Wednesday during the inauguration of the 15.13km Ika-Azumini Highway—linking Abia and Rivers States—in the Ika Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, Wike applauded Governor Umo Eno for decently utilising the national government’s subsidy windfall for the payment of the people.

He noted that the erstwhile subsidy authorities had slowed the nation’s development, which justified President Bola Tinubu’s determination to scrap it instantly upon assuming office.

According to Wike, Nigerians person already begun to consciousness the affirmative impact, with much funds present being channelled from the national centre to states.
Recalling his acquisition arsenic a erstwhile governor, Wike said the substance subsidy was a bitter pill Nigerians had to swallow and that it placed an tremendous load connected governors during that era.

He urged Governor Umo Eno to guarantee improvement reaches each portion of Akwa Ibom truthful helium tin contiguous a beardown scorecard successful 2027.

“When the clip comes, radical volition ask, ‘Where is your study card?’” helium said.
In response, Governor Eno thanked President Tinubu for freeing up funds for the states and pledged to deploy those funds diligently without resorting to outer borrowing, ensuring a debt-free modulation to his eventual successor successful 2031.

“I tin archer you that determination are funds to bash our projects, specified arsenic this, without owing the banks, and we are not leaving debts for those who volition instrumentality implicit from us.

So, we privation to enactment him. We successful Akwa Ibom are agreed successful enactment of the President. We are agreed successful enactment of the distinguished Senator Godswill Obot Akpabio, the uncommon Senate President.”
Chairman of Ika Local Government Area, UtibeAbasi Nwoko, praised the politician for completing the strategical inter-state road, saying it had eased long-standing proscription challenges and strengthened socio-economic ties betwixt Abia and Rivers states.