A Lagos-based non-governmental organisation, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has urged President Bola Tinubu to emulate the good example of Governor Alex Otti of Abia State by immediately obeying the judgment ordering the Federal Government to recover pensions collected by former governors, and to challenge the legality of states pension laws permitting those involved to collect such outrageous pensions.
The judgment, dated November 26, 2019, was delivered by Justice Oluremi Oguntoyinbo following a suit by SERAP.
It would be recalled that Mr Otti, last week, signed into law the bill to repeal ‘The Abia State Governors and Deputy Governors Pensions Law No 4 of 2001’, following the passing by the House of Assembly. Under the repealed law, former governors and deputy governors in the state were paid lifetime salaries and got houses in Abia and Abuja.
In the letter dated March 23, 2024 and signed by SERAP deputy director, Kolawole Oluwadare, the organisation said: “We urge you to emulate the good example of Governor Otti by urgently obeying the judgment, something which former President Muhammadu Buhari blatantly failed to do.”
Pensions Scrap To Ex-Govs: SERAP Tasks Tinubu Emulate Otti
