By Ola ‘Kiya, Reporting
SPECIAL Adviser, Information and Strategy to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Bayo Onanuga says state governors and local government chairmen should wake up to their responsibilities in catering for the people they govern.
Invariably, the media guru is urging hungry and angry Nigerians to take their complaints to their governors and chairmen of local government areas and not President Tinubu, who’s far from them.
In his post on X on Wednesday, the former newspaper chief executive, said Nigeria was a country practising federalism and not unitarism.
“Let the governors and council chairmen wake up to their responsibilities.
“The Federal Government is not the only actor in town. You have your duties cut out for you.
“Imagine each state makes efforts to boost food production in its domain, build one world class hospital, good roads, good schools etc.
“Imagine what our country would have become!. But while governors and the councils shirk their responsibilities, they are quick to call out the Federal Government, which is far away from the people those governors govern.
“Let all governors govern well, along with their councils, food inflation, at least, will disappear.
“Our Federalism may not be perfect, but we are not a unitary state, where every thing must flow from the centre,” he averred.
Stonix News reports that the current ravaging hunger and privation in the land is partly as a result of removal of fuel subsidy on May 29, 2023 and the floating of the naira and dollar which has weakened the naira to an abysmal idiocy.
Though the country is, by paper, a federal system, in practice, it is a unitary system with the FG’s control of the armed forces and other security apparatus as well as the economic policy of the government.
Also in the legislative list, among others, is the power over mineral resources vested in the Federal Government alone, hence the agelong agitation for restructuring of the unworking contraption.
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