The Governors have a meet with Buhari Friday over final tranche of Paris Club refund

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President Muhammadu Buhari will meet on Friday with the governors of the 36 states of the federation in the Presidential Villa to discuss the latest installment of Club and Paris Club reimbursements.This Day reports that the meeting that is at the request of the Governors is to seek the approval of the President for the final release of the Paris Club's N200billion reimbursement."The governors expect the president to authorize the final release of Club Paris reimbursements, which is about $ 200 million to meet their obligations to workers and pensioners and pay other bills in their states," a source said.

According to him, when the Chairman of the Nigerian Governors' Forum (NGF) and the Governor of Zamfara State, Abdulaziz Yari, led a delegation of seven governors to London to visit the president, he thanked them for "keeping Nigeria together in their Absence ".The Governors want to take advantage of the good relationship with Buhari, to seek their approval for the latest release of reimbursements.Buhari had approved the payment of the first tranche of N522billion on December 16 of last year.In July, the federal government released N243.80billion as the second tranche of the Paris Club refunds.With the release of the second tranche, the total amount disbursed to the states stands at N765.8billion.

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