Read Which State Shunned The Governors Meeting With President Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari is currently in a meeting behind closed doors with the governors of the 36 states The Nation reports. The meeting is being held at the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

The focus of the meeting between the president and the state governors is expected to provide a solution to the problem of outstanding salaries in some states.

 The meeting was called after the 36 state governors made an appeal for a presidential intervention into the empty accounts and inability to pay civil and state servants their salary.

It was gathered that some of the states were being owed between N10 billion and N50 billion.

According to Punch, the states present are Rivers, Ogun, Imo, Gombe, Benue, Delta, Niger, Kano, Katsina, Zamfara, Kogi, Borno and Jigawa states. Others were governors of Kebbi, Kwara, Taraba, Ekiti, Ondo, Kaduna, Oyo, Osun, Edo, Anambra, Sokoto, Ebonyi, Lagos, Adamawa, Cross Rivers, Akwa Ibom and Yobe States.