By Omoh Gabriel

There were several response from Nigerians on the above subject matter discussed in this column last week . Here are some.

Kabir Bello Dandago

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The rich also cry. Its time for Nigerians to see the change as promised. Blames and counter blames can not help matters. As said, a change only starts with a change of heart. APC, Nigerians are watching closely

Maduka Osoka

All we are saying and expecting is change from our present situations, not stories.

Umoh Atanang

This is a shame if the federal, states and local governments cannot be trusted with public funds. No wonder those who aspire to hold public offices always make it a do or die affair. How can they be stealing our monies and show off as if they are gods? All I am waiting to see is the so-called change that APC government intends to bring but if not, it will then be a moral burden on them as so many APC members and those decamping from PDP and other parties to APC in order to protect their ill gotten wealth.

Gold E. Boyd

Some people are not being reasonable. The question is, was it GEJ administration that mismanaged their state funds, and make them to be bankrupt? Initially, they claimed that GEJ administration didn’t share the excess crude account monies but the former Finance minister refuted them. The Governors are the major problem of Nigerians because it is the same governors crying wolf now that starved the LGAs of their funds. They fought against financial autonomy of LGAs. They should go back home and straighten up their records.

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Buhari MUST ignore them and concentrate on making the federal government work. The way and manner they convert state funds to personal use insults all sensibilities. How can a governor be moving about in private jet, someone who may never have afforded a local flight before becoming a governor?They move in a convoy of over 30 SUV’s in addition to cars, buses, pick up trucks, dispatch riders etc.

Not one saved a kobo for a period like this. Buhari should leave them alone. I wish our democratic system allows for midterm elections, all of them would have gone in one fell swoop. I am enjoying their cry of frustration to find money to continue to live their wasteful lifestyles. The governor of Imo state built an ‘International conference centre’. You ask yourself which international conference is holding in Owerri?

Oromilla

Watch out, the bailout thing is just a scheme by Buhari and his APC co-travelers to refund some of the campaign funds used for their presidential election. How do you imagine a state using up to N30 billion or N50 billion on a federal project when that same state has it’s own projects abandoned? This is the same reason Umaru Musa Yar’Ardua’s government banned this same governors never to execute federal project’s in their domain but should request or draw FG’s attention to it.

In actual fact, the FG should not bail out any state. Let them think out of the box to rescue themselves or face their people. I tell you, they will either wake up or their government or will be swept away by riot. And then the FG should enact a law that will make early election possible if there is a major protest against a governor or local government chairman in their domain.

Osanebi Osakuni

Where are the people that supported these politicians to shout for change? They must be ashamed of themselves. They queued behind them to chase out someone else. Now the person has been chased out and the story have become different. Yes, federal government owes some states. How do we believe the financial figures being submitted by the same governors? This is actually where the so called Buhari’s probe should start from. How much does FGN owe states like Osun and Benue? We are waiting for this ‘hange’

Abiamone

A situation where half of the states are insolvent calls for urgent review. Either the number of states is too many or state creation is detrimental to long-term economic development. In which case, reversion to regional autonomy may be preferable. If we had, as in per-indendence days, Eastern Region, Western Region and Northern Region, this will reduce the cost of governance and add to the viability of the regions.

Michael

It is not their fault since every month they get their free Hallelujah Niger Delta money and spend all the money as they wished forgetting they must pay their workers.

Prince T

FG will fail if it does not help the states. However, Buhari can learn from Obama by applying stringent rules to the bail out funds. The fund will be specific to certain projects and paid periodically on completion of each stage of the projects.

Rio Itsene

How can irresponsible and reckless spending by states be considered “financial crisis”? One-sided crisis? “Every state must publish its account as well as every local government. This is the kind of change the APC government and legislature should bring about in the country”.