{"id":239289,"date":"2026-01-14T09:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T09:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/abia-funds-dont-get-to-local-governments-don-ubani\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T09:44:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T09:44:00","slug":"abia-funds-dont-get-to-local-governments-don-ubani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/abia-funds-dont-get-to-local-governments-don-ubani\/","title":{"rendered":"Abia: Funds don\u2019t get to local governments\u00a0\u00a0\u2013 Don Ubani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">\n<p>Ex-<a href=\"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.name.ng\/news\/abia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Abia <\/a>State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Don Ubani, says local governments in the state have been hijacked.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on \u2018The Morning Brief\u2019, a programme on Channels Television monitored by DAILY POST on Wednesday, Ubani said local governments\u2019 funds do not get to the councils.<\/p>\n<p>The former commissioner was speaking on issues concerning governance in <a href=\"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.name.ng\/news\/abia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Abia <\/a>State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNothing is happening in <a href=\"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.name.ng\/news\/abia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Abia <\/a>State. The local governments have been hijacked, their funds don\u2019t get to the council.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s why as we speak now, the High Court in Okwa West LGA has been overgrown by weeds to the extent that workers in the court have threatened to get relocation to Aba.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is because the council has no money to clear the weeds in and around the court. This is the governor that know that constitutionally speaking, the positions of Permanent Secretary are political,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v9.0&amp;appId=420332301344305\" nonce=\"sm97MhBO\" type=\"pmdelayedscript\" data-cfasync=\"false\" data-no-optimize=\"1\" data-no-defer=\"1\" data-no-minify=\"1\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-Abia State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Don Ubani, says local governments in the state have been hijacked. Speaking on \u2018The Morning Brief\u2019, a programme on Channels Television monitored by DAILY POST on Wednesday, Ubani said local governments\u2019 funds do not get to the councils. The former commissioner was speaking on issues concerning governance in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":239290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[176],"tags":[199,2650],"class_list":["post-239289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abia","tag-abia","tag-don-ubani"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Don-Ubani.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}