 From your state, we're now in Oregon State and the state government and the People's Democratic Party, PDP Governorship aspirant in 2019, Mr. Ladi Adebo-Too, have engaged in a war of words over claims of diversion of 64 billion Naira local government funds. Adebo-Too, while addressing journalists, accused the governor and his administration of diverting the funds meant for the 20 local councils in the state, and that's against the directive of President Mahmoud Buhari. But in a reaction, the Oregon State government, through the Commissioner for Local Government and Citizens Affairs, Afalabi Afangwe, described the allegation as a figment of Mr. Adebo-Too's imagination. Take a listen. Of appropriating funds belonging to the third chair of government, 64 billion Naira in 21 months belonging to the third chair of government essentially ended up with the state government according to the Bureau of Statistics, 64 billion Naira was disbursed nearly only for the third chair of government to get salaries. And we had nothing else, virtually nothing else to show. All the 20 local governments in the state were virtually under lock and key. No projects we could see or point at in 21 months, 21 months of this administration from records we have. I want to come with a comprehensive figure of how much we receive and how much is actually the expenditure. Pretty people have helped the group of Oregon State by saying this is the income, this is the expenditure. But they fail in that respect. What they presented to the government is malicious, is false because they are only looking at the income line. How about the expenditure line? Then I'm saying this January to May this year, January to May this year. State government augmented the payment of salary of local government with over 2 billion. I have the fact and figure with me. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.