The governor said this while addressing the Executive Intelligence Management Course (EIMC) 9 at the Institute of Security Service (ISS) in Abuja.
Governor Wike also credited the poor performance and development of Nigerian states under President Buhari regime to the nature of Federal Government the president has chosen to run in the country.
In Wike’s speech titled the “Institutional Weaknesses and Challenges of Development in Rivers State,” he suggested that governors under Buhari’s administration shouldn’t be addressed as Chief Security Officers (CSOs), but mere Chief Logistic Officers (CLOs).
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His words: “The federal government is simply too overbearing with too much powers and resources at its disposal.
“We know the recurrent rifts between the federal government and the states over development issues, including revenue sharing, resource control, and excess crude oil account, appointments into federal agencies and arbitrary location or withdrawal of federally-funded projects,” the governor added.