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Governors Reject Buhari’s Order On State Legislature, Judiciary – Report

The Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to allow its members to work out their own modalities on financial autonomy for the judiciary and the legislature at the state level, The Nation reports.

The president on May 22 signed the order granting financial autonomy to the legislature and the judiciary in the 36 states of the federation.

The order empowered the accountant-general of the federation to deduct funds for the state legislature and the judiciary from the federal allocations to the states.

“Based on this order, where any state of the federation fails to release allocations meant for the state legislature and state judiciary, the accountant-general of the federation shall authorize the deduction of the money from source,” the order read.

Also Read: Financial Autonomy: Abia Assembly Commends Buhari

According to The Nation, state governors faulted the approach of the president, saying it was unnecessary and unconstitutional.

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It said Kayode Fayemi, chairman of the NGF, was nominated to meet with the president and Abubakar Malami, attorney-general of the federation, to relate the concerns of the governors.

“We mandated the NGF chairman, Dr Kayode Fayemi to have an audience with the President and Malami to avoid recourse to legal tussle on the interpretation of Section 121 (3) of the 1999 constitution,” the newspaper quoted a governor from the north-central as saying.

“We prefer dialogue to confrontation because we consider Executive Order 10 as unnecessary and an over-kill of the existing constitutional provision. You can see that in the last few days, AGF Malami has been trying to justify EO 10.

“And the NGF chairman on Thursday had closed-door sessions with the President, where all the defects in EO 10 were spelt out.

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