By: Felix Ikpotor
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, on Wednesday, said he and his other colleagues (governors) have become mere Chief Logistic Officers (CLOs), who are only meant to provide logistics for federal security agencies rather than being Chief Security Officers in their respective states..
The governor stated these while delivering a paper titled: “Institutional Weaknesses and Challenges of Development in Rivers State” at the Executive Intelligence Management Course (EIMC) 9 of the Institute of Security Service (ISS), Abuja yesterday.
Wike, a former minister in the Goodluck Jonathan’s administration said Federal Government is too overbearing, with too many powers and resources at its disposal and posited that the overbearing nature of the federal government should be quickly addressed.
He said states have remained underdeveloped because of the overbearing federal government with dysfunctional organisations slowing down the pace of development.
Wike said: “The federal government is simply too overbearing with too much powers and resources at its disposal”.
“We know the recurrent rifts between the federal government and the states over development issues, including revenue sharing, resource control, excess crude oil account, appointments into federal agencies and arbitrary location or withdrawal of federally-funded projects.
Continuing, the Rivers Governor said,“Federal government agencies have been turned against state and local governments, and have constituted themselves into a stumbling block by deliberately embarking on unconstitutional activities that had been stalling development in states.”
