The recent claim by the Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Mr. Clement Agba, that the state Governors were responsible for the multidimensional poverty in the country has elicited a reaction from the Nigeria Governors’ Forum.
This was as the forum, in a statement issued by its Director of Media and Public Affairs, Nigeria Governors’ Forum Secretariat, Abdulrazaque Bello-Barkindo, on Saturday, faulted the Federal Government for the biting poverty in the country.
The minister had on Wednesday blamed low impacts of the Federal Government’s social investment plan on the lack of cooperation from the state governors.
