- PDP governors, among other things discussed at the meeting, demanded that the National Assembly should revisit the issue of devolution of powers to the states and local governments in its current Constitution Review.
This is as the opposition party governors also asked President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately assent to the revised Electoral Act Amendment Bill into law without further delay.
Sharing details of the Monday meeting via his verified Twitter handle, Governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa listed eight (8) key points from the meeting as resolved by himself and other governors.
See below the major key points from the PDP Governor’s meeting in Yenagoa:
- Mr. President must immediately sign the Electoral Act Amendment Bill into law to give Nigeria a reformed Electoral framework;
- INEC must immediately work to strengthen our electoral processes, following the outcome of #FCTDecides2022, where our great party won 43 out of the 62 Councillorship positions.
- The federal government must bring the perpetrators that imported contaminated petrol and sold this petrol to the Nigerian people to justice.
- The federal government must immediately investigate the fictitious figures of petrol consumption that has been ascribed to Nigerians.
- The Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission should expedite action on the new Revenue Allocation formula in such a way as to increase allocation to States and Local Governments.
- That the Central Bank of Nigeria’s functions as processes must be streamlined to adhere to the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
- That there must be transparency and accountability in the remittances of the Nigerian National Petroleum Commission into the federation account; and
- That the National Assembly should revisit the issue of devolution of powers to the states and local governments in its current Constitution Review exercise to transfer some items from the Exclusive Legislative List to the Concurrent List.