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| Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo state |
Edo State governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, Wednesday said the decision on whether to remove fuel subsidy or not for Nigerians was not under the purview of states and their governors but a ‘federal business.’
Speaking to journalists at the Presidential Wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport Lagos on his way to Abuja, Oshiomhole said state governors had recently called on the Federal Government to remove fuel subsidy and the review of the federal allocation sharing formula as a pre-condition to the implementation of the N18, 000 minimum wage for civil servants in their respective states.
“That is a business for the Federal Government, it has been a Federal Government agenda over the years, and you remember all our fight while I was in the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC). So, it is a federal matter. It is not for the state and so we will treat it as a federal issue.”
When suggested that removal of fuel subsidy would affect largely people at the states, he said “It is not a federal of a foreign country, it is a federal issue of Nigeria and whatever they do or fail to do or how they do it will have effect on the people. There is no question about that.”
Meanwhile, the governor has disclosed that his administration was considering the possibility of returning schools to missions to ensure that government’s investment in the schools are not left to rot.Oshiomhole, who dropped the hint yesterday at the foundation-laying of a new Model College at the old Pilgrims Baptist College, Ewohinmi, Edo Central, however assured that a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) would be made to ensure that children of the poor have access to such schools.
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