The Nigeria Governors’ Forum will on Wednesday meet to discuss the issue of financial autonomy for the states’ judiciary and legislature, code-named the Executive Order 10, 2020.
A statement issued by Abdulrazaque Bello-Barkindo, Head, Media and Public Affairs, NGF, on Tuesday in Abuja indicated that the consultation would be the 9th in the series of teleconference meeting held by the governors since the lockdown, occasioned by the outbreak ofPresident Muhammadu Buhari, on Friday, signed into law, an Executive Order, granting financial autonomy to the legislative and the judicial arms across the 36 states of the country.
Mr Bello-Barkindo said the meeting, which will take place at 2 pm, will have in attendance, all the 36 states governors, via Microsoft Team from their various states. “Also to be discussed is the restructuring of states’ loans and the Federation Account Allocation Committee deductions, which have been a recurring decimal on the governors’ table.
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