Leave Obaseki Alone, PDP Govs Warn FG, APC Counterparts

Governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), have risen in defence of Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, following the attack on him by governors of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), over his claims that the Federal Government resorted to printing of currency to meet its obligation in the month of March, this year.
Obaseki had while lamenting difficulty occasioned by the economic squeeze in the land, stated that things got so bad that government had to print the sum of N60billion to share among the federating states; a claim dismissed as false by Finance, Budget and National Planning Minister, Zainab Ahmed.
In a statement signed by the Director General of the PDP Governors Forum, Cyril Maduabum, and made available to newsmen, yesterday, the governors chided their colleagues in the ruling party, for what they called “the partisan slant” that has since greeted Obaseki’s advice to Federal Government on how best to manage its monetary policies.
“The PDP Governors Forum is alarmed at the partisan slant a patriotic advise to the Federal Government by Governor Godwin Obaseki , on its monetary policies has assumed.”