Edo State governor Adams Oshiomhole yesterday called for equity and justice in revenue sharing formula in? the country, saying such would make states to develop according to their pace.
According to Oshiomhole, it is illegal since 1999, 13 years after, the revenue allocation formula has not been revisited.
The governor spoke during the golden jubilee lecture in honour of Akwa Ibom State governor Godswill Akpabio at the Le Meridien Ibom Hotel and Golf Resort, Nwaniba.
He said: “We don’t need all the resources in Nigeria to revisit the revenue mobilization formula, and we must obey the constitution which says that constitution must be revisited every five years.?
“It is actually illegal that since 1999 and it is now almost 13 years, in clear bridge of the spirit and the letter of the constitution, the revenue allocation formular has not been revisited, it has to be done.”
Oshiomhole also said there was need to remove such jargons like rotations, federal characters and other sentiments which the elite had beaten themselves with in an attempt to divert attention from most of the problems affecting the country.
?“The truth is that even for the politics of national stability, we need to remove jargons like rotation, federal character and all those sentiments that the elites have beaten themselves with in our futile attempt to divert attention from our poverty of the brain, poverty of leadership, set brothers against brothers, muslims against Christians because they have nothing else to fill their brains and to fire their imaginations.
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