Governors just confirmed NNPC wasn't sending everything to states

Something interesting happened on Monday. Every governor in Nigeria publicly backed Tinubu's Executive Order 9, which requires oil and gas revenues to be paid directly into the Federation Account.

Read that again slowly.

Tinubu signed the order on February 13. What it does: it forces royalty oil, tax oil, profit oil, and profit gas to flow directly into the account that gets shared between federal, state, and local governments every month. No more routing through NNPC first.

The governors' statement is carefully diplomatic. But one line gives the whole game away.

"Recent FAAC communiqués have consistently demonstrated a gap between gross revenue collections and final distributable sums."

That's the governors saying, officially, in writing: money was being collected in Nigeria's name and not all of it was showing up for distribution.

This is not a new accusation. NNPC's off-account operations have been documented for years. What's new is that it's now so accepted as fact that 36 governors are endorsing an executive order designed to fix it, in language that effectively confirms the problem existed.

Every road in your state that never got fixed. Every contract signed and abandoned. Every school that ran out of textbooks three months into the term. The explanation isn't just corruption at the state level. It runs through the gap between what the oil wells produce and what the states actually receive.

The order is signed. The governors are on board. Whether NNPC's operations actually change is the next question. And the answer to that question will show up in your state's FAAC allocation, not in any press release.