According to PM News, the Chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum, NGF, Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers state at a seminar organised in Ikogosi Ekiti, Ekiti State, southwest Nigeria, by The Future Project, divulged that he has been blacklisted by the presidency and ostracised from some official functions, especially foreign missions, he also said that efforts are also being made by Jonathan to bully him out of the chairmanship of the NGF because he has maintained that corruption in the petrol subsidy payments must stop.
Amaechi said subsidy payment is mired in fraud, as federal officials “balloon the figures.”
He said the presidency is not happy with him for insisting that transparency and accountability are needed in the payment of petrol subsidy.
Amaechi said it was for this reason that the Governors Forum went to court to challenge the legality of the federal government’s action of using money meant for the three tiers of government to pay for petrol subsidy.
“It is one reason they don’t want me as governors’ chairman”.
are u against the subsidy?
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