Kwara State chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) yesterday said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) led state government's claim that it is not tampering with local councils' fund cannot be trusted.

The opposition party said its doubt flows from the inconsistent and contradictory figures the government is giving regarding the alleged shortfall in the allocations to the local councils.

Kwara ACN Chairman, Kayode Olawepo, said in a statement in Ilorin that a government issuing conflicting figures on the same issue cannot be trusted, particularly when the council fund comes to it first before being disbursed to the respective local government councils.

"The contradictory statements from the government make it impossible to trust its claim that it is not deducting the funds meant for councils," Olawepo said.

"We draw the attention of the public to the hot debate patriotic Kwarans have engaged Governor Abdulfattah Ahmed on twitter, a social media network, on this issue."

In his response to a poser by Kwara Whistleblower, who uses @kwhistleblower and others like @IamDiranEbo and @Kwarason, Ahmed said the shortfall in allocation to the councils between May, June and July is exactly N1.2bn.

"But his Secretary to the State Government (SSG) and Information Commissioner told a press briefing on Wednesday that the shortfall is well over N1.25bn. Who do Kwarans believe between the governor and his men?"

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