Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and the governor of Akwa Ibom State, Mr Udom Emmanuel, yesterday met behind closed-doors at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, Vanguard reports.
The meeting came on the heels of the alleged inflammatory statements by some political leaders on the onshore/offshore dichotomy occasioned by the report of the Governor Nasir el-Rufai-led committee to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on restructuring. It will be recalled that the report of the Kaduna State governor’s committee had made far reaching recommendations which didn’t go down well with some stakeholders from the oil-rich region.
The Federal Government, though, claimed it had addressed grey areas relating to the sharing of Federation Account Allocation to littoral states as it concerns crude oil revenue. However, Governor Emmanuel, in his reaction to the development, said it was irresponsible for people who had no business with oil generation in the country to make sweeping statements that could jeopardise the polity.