Dear Governors, you want state police but you don’t want local government autonomy.

This is wickedness but your boys will not want to hear the truth. If all of you want to show that you want the people at the grassroots to enjoy the dividends of democracy, you should call a meeting of truth and tell yourselves truth.

It is a shame that the only time you become advocates of good governance, fairness, justice and equity is when you’re out of that office. Some of you will then go to the Senate and start fighting for what you stopped as Governor. You will become civil rights advocates on tv if you don’t go to the Senate and everything you were supposed to do right but you failed to do will then become what you lecture us about. No shame. No conscience.

If not for greed, Governors, why is it difficult for you to allow local government autonomy? You order your various assemblies and because of food, they listen to you and never give it a thought. And when they too leave office, they become activists. They have no conscience but in truth, they are handicapped.

You have seen what you do with your SIECs, State Independent Electoral Commission. You choose your cronies to write results and announce the winners. All of you except Nasir el-Rufai when he was Governor of the Liberal State of Kaduna.

You give the the local government in your various state whatever amount you want to give them from the federal allocation and no chairman dare say a word if he doesn’t want to be removed by your assembly the following morning.

You have no desire for our general good. You are so self centered and I think you don’t know that there’s an end to your tenure.

Especially with the removal of fuel subsidy, you now have more money to maintain your structures and hold your state down instead of developing them.

You have more from the local government whose autonomy you don’t support yet we say that we have three tiers of government.

State police will give you more power while local government autonomy will reduce your influence but bring about grassroots development and so you don’t want it.

You are not sincere in your dealings with the people you govern but the people themselves like their chains.