Governors Flay Buhari’s Executive Order On Financial Autonomy

– Say they don’t need EO 10 to implement financial autonomy

Governors on Tuesday rejected the Executive Order by President Muhammadu Buhari for the implementation of financial autonomy for state Legislature and Judiciary.

They clarified that while the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) is not against the implementation of the law on financial autonomy, they would not be stampeded by the Order.

According to the governors, the President’s Executive Order 10 is not required for the implementation of the financial autonomy they jointly facilitated.

The governors said they were not consulted before the President enacted the order.

Plateau State Governor Simon Lalong spoke with reporters in Abuja on behalf of the forum, after the NGF’s meeting with visiting French Minister of Foreign Trade and Attractiveness, Franck Riester.

Executive Order 10 was issued by the President on May 10, last year.

On Monday, Attorney-General and Minister of Justice Abubakar Malami said the Federal Government was determined to push through the content of EO 10. “No going back”, he said in Sokoto.

But Lalong insisted that the Executive order was unnecessary.

He attributed the confusion over financial autonomy for state Legislature and Judiciary, which led to the strike by court workers across the country, to misconception by those who confused the financial autonomy law with the Executive Order 10.

– The Nation