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The Inter-Party Advisory Council has called on the National Assembly to?allocate more funds to the Federal Government during?the review of the?constitution.
Alhaji Mohammed Shittu, secretary of the council, made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Sunday.
According to him, most of the funds being allocated to states have been misappropriated giving the impression that government at that level is not performing up to?expectations.
He said the Federal Government had done better than state and local governments, adding that the achievements of the central government in the provision of infrastructure was better felt by the people than the other tiers of government.
On the issue of economic dependency, Shittu advised states to harness potentials within their domains.
According to him, every state in Nigeria has numerous resources to harness toward development of the people.
He said the constant distribution of funds through federation account had made some governors to be lazy.
“Every state in this country has potential to harness and become richer than some countries, but we decided to depend on the federation account.
“I will advise states to look inward and tap some of their resources to ensure they achieve optimum development without any recourse to the federal purse.
Shittu also canvassed for the scrapping of states electoral bodies, insisting that they could not conduct free and fair elections within their states.
Shittu stressed the need to centralise the nation’s electoral body, adding that politicians would have more confidence in? INEC than its state counterparts. (NAN)