SAN FRANCISCO, September 16, (THEWILL) – The 36 State Governors have declared their support to the economic measures being introduced by President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration to bring the country out of recession.
This was part of resolutions reached at the extraordinary meeting of the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) held at the old Banquet Hall of the State House, Abuja, on Friday.
“The governors resolved with a commitment to encourage the Federal government to continue along the line to bring the country out of recession,” Zamfara State Governor, Abdulaziz Yari, said while briefing State House correspondents at the end of the meeting.
Yari, who doubles as the NGF Chairman added that the forum also agreed to activate the State’s task force on polio through the primary health care centres, which is to be led by the Deputy Governors.
He revealed that the Governors also expressed their commitment to paying their counterpart funding towards polio eradication saying they would engage the Minister of Health in order to give urgent attention to eradication of Lassa fever in the country.
On the issue of insurgents, he said that members resolved that it must be treated as a matter of national emergency.
Story by David Oputah
