Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa State has explained why he will be leaving N11 billion liability to the incoming government on May 29.
The governor while assenting to the state’s 2015 Appropriation Bill in Dutse yesterday, April 17, explained that the liability was part of the N17 billion used to construct an airport in Dutse which was sourced from the budget of different sectors.
According to Premium Times, Lamido said the Federal Government which promised to refund the money used to construct the airport in the state only paid N6 billion out of the money.
He said: We took the money from the state budgetary allocation from other sectors to build an airport within shortest period of time.
“We used the money where we think are useful and needed especially to get the airport started, with the intention of recovering it from the Federal Government but it was not forthcoming.
“This had affected our ongoing projects which we could not complete like in health sector and road projects.”
The governor said he was sorry for not fulfilling the promise made to the people to work within the available resources without leaving any debt.
He urged the Governor-elect, Badaru Abubakar, to follow-up the money promised by the Federal Government.
Jigawa state which was previously ruled by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) fell to APC in the April 11 gubernatorial election.
The All Progressives Congress governorship candidate for Jigawa State, Alh Mohammed Badaru Abubakar, won the governorship election overwhelmingly, polling 648,045 votes, while his closest opponent, Alhaji Aminu Ibrahim Ringim of the PDP polled 479,447.
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