Obasanjo Blasts Governors Siphoning Local Council Funds, says some governors behave like emperors

Former president Olusegun Obasanjo, on Monday, lambasted some state governors who he said had turned themselves to emperors in their various states, mismanaging funds meant for local councils. 


The former president expressed this at the conference of Ibadan School of Government and Public Policy, ISGPP, Ibadan, Oyo State. Lamenting the pitiable conditions of teeming masses in the councils, he said: "Is there any development going on in the 774 constitutionally recognised local government councils?

Speaking further, Obasanjo said: "Now, we have a situation where some governors have become sole administrators, acting like emperors. 

These governors have rendered public institutions irrelevant and useless in the manner they starve local governments their legitimate funds from the federation account. "When governors take their money, the chairmen of councils take the balance of the money and put it on the table and share it out among the council members. 

In some states, governors have hijacked the resources of local governments and expended them to serve their whims and caprices instead of using these resources to galvanise growth and development," Chief Obasanjo noted.