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The Anambra State
Governor, Peter Obi has said that but for lean resources, every
governor in the country would be willing to implement the new minimum
wage structure approved by the National Assembly. Mr Obi, who is deputy
chairman of Nigeria’s Governor’s Forum, said yesterday in Awka that
though it is good for Nigerian workers to have a good wage structure,
the resources available to state governments might not be enough to pay
the approved packaged. He said a meeting of the Governors’ Forum had
unanimously agreed that the federal government takes too much of what
accrues to the nation and there is need to re-adjust, because what is
left to the states is not enough to enable them to pay.

“For instance,
where federal facilities located in some states are either privatised
or commercialised, the states lose those sources of revenue and get
poorer,” Mr Obi said. He said the sooner this was redressed, the better
for all Nigerians.

APGA did well

Asked if he was
satisfied with the performance of APGA in the state in the last general
election, where the party failed to win any of the three senatorial
seats, Mr Obi said: “The last general election was fairly a
representative of the wishes of the people,” he said. “The way you know
which party is more acceptable is result of election in strategic areas
of Onitsha, Nnewi and Awka. That is Awka North, Awka South, Onitsha
North, Onitsha South, Nnewi North, Nnewi South and that is how to
determine whether we do well or not.”