An emergency meeting of the Nigerian Governors Forum was on Tuesday, held at the State House in Abuja.

The NGF Chairman, Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno state, said the meeting was focused on amending certain sections of the Nigerian Constitution.

Furthermore, he addressed the issue about whether the states have a sole right to approve the withdrawal of funds or not.

Defending the move, he explained that there had been a similar instance sometime in 2014, whereby the state governors approved the withdrawal of a huge sum of money from the excess crude account to fight Insurgency during the Jonathan administration.

Shettima, therefore, stressed that such approvals are not new and warned that no one should play politics with the withdrawal of the fund.

This comes less than a week after the governors approved the withdrawal of the sum of $1 billion which the Federal Government says it will spend on fighting insurgency.

The move sparked criticism from some members of the opposition who described the move as alarming.

It also sparked a debate about the actual intention the government has for the money especially as it had claimed to have “technically defeated the Boko Haram Insurgents”.

Beyond criticising the plan, the PDP said it has rubbished the integrity of the current administration and demanded that it gives an apology to Nigerians “for lying to them about the actual state of the fight against insurgency in Nigeria”.

The party also called on the National Assembly to interrogate the proposed disbursement and subject it to a thorough but rapid interrogation.

In defence, however, the APC has said that no amount is too much to spend on bringing a final end to the war against insurgency in the country and therefore, described the debate as totally unnecessary. Read Here