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President Bola Tinubu has warned state governors against withholding statutory allocations meant for local government councils..
Tinubu issued the warning on Friday while speaking at the 15th National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the State House Conference Centre in Abuja.
The president said failure to comply with the Supreme Court ruling on local government financial autonomy could compel him to issue an executive order to enforce direct disbursement of funds.
Addressing NEC members, including governors and members of the national working committee, Tinubu said: “The Supreme Court has capped it for you again, saying, ‘give them their money directly.’”
“If you wait for my executive order, because I have the knife, I have the yam, I will cut it,” he said.
He further stated: “I’m just being very respectful and understanding with my governors. Otherwise, if you don’t start to implement it, fact after fact, you will see,” he said.
The Supreme Court had ordered that allocations from the Federation Account be paid directly to local governments, in line with sections 162(5) to 162(8) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended).
