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Alhaji Fatai Ayoola, Chairman of Ajeromi-Ifelodun Local Government Area of Lagos State, says #EndBadGovernance protest ought to begin from council areas in view of their increased federal allocations.
Ayoola said that local government allocations increased by 100 per cent under President Bola Tinubu’s administration, adding that the protesters ought to have started the nationwide demonstration from their respective council areas.
“Let’s assume we were earning N50 million in the past. We now earn N100 million,” Ayoola said in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).
He added that states, particularly oil-producing ones, earned huge allocations under the administration and had to make a big impact on the citizens to justify their earnings.
He said it was wrong for EndBadGovernance protesters to leave their councils and state governments and besiege another state in protest.
“Delta, for instance, is earning more than all the states in SouthWest put together?
“These are the fundamental questions we must ask ourselves,” he said.
Youths and other Nigerians began a nationwide protest on Aug. 1 to draw the attention of President Bola Tinubu’s administration to the economic hardship facing Nigerians.
The protest was scheduled to end on Aug. 10.
In a national broadcast on Sunday, however. Tinubu told the protesters to end the demonstration, saying that his administration was doing much to improve the economy and reduce hardship.
Ayoola told NAN that local councils and state governments must do their best for the citizens so as to complement the Federal Government’s efforts.
He said that there was a need for Nigerians to understand the roles of all the tiers of government.
