Alia, who met President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa Abuja, at the weekend, said his administration would see how those debts can be renegotiated to put the state on a better perspective to offset it gradually. He said once such moves were perfected, workers in the state would be getting their salaries on the 25th of every month to fulfil his pledge on resumption of office in May this year.
'Lots of the support we're gaining from the federal government. It is our hope that this will continue,' he said, noting that the gesture has also brought relative peace that was, hitherto, absent because of political divisions of the people along party lines in the state. 'That has been very, very helpful. Insecurity in the past was something of trouble.