SEE WHY~ President Tinubu dragged 36 State Governors to Court over LGA Autonomy.

Nigerian  President Bola Ahmed Tinubu dragged the 36 State Governors to court for undermining the functionality of the 774 local government councils.

iKEMBA News reported that 

the litigation, was signed on Monday in Abuja, and was in tune with the reality on ground in our 3rd tier of government.

one of our correspondence said that the move by the federal government was in the right direction.

Similarly, Senator Kawu who penultimate week, sponsored a motion in the Senate for local government autonomy, said that the litigation was timely, as the Nigerian masses are in dear need of policies that will alleviate their sufferings at the local government level.

Recall that the Federal Government had instituted a legal action against the Governors of the 36 States of the Federation at the Supreme Court over alleged misconduct in the administration of Local Government Areas, LGAs.

The Federal Government in the suit marked: SC/CV/343/2024, which was filed by the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Prince Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, is seeking full autonomy for all LGAs in the country as the third tier of government.

It specifically prayed the apex court to issue an order, prohibiting state governors from embarking on unilateral, arbitrary and unlawful dissolution of democratically elected local government leaders.

As well as for an order permitting the funds standing in the credits of local governments to be directly channelled to them from the Federation Account in line with the provisions of the Constitution as against the alleged unlawful joint accounts created by governors.

Senator Kawu said, “I am happy, Mr. President has begun to toe on our path to salvage our people by given the local governments autonomy to operate as enshrined in the constitution.

“The decision to compel the 36 states of the federation to give autonomy to local governments is a step in the right direction. This will surely help in bring developments to our people, particularly the grassroots in the rural areas.

“It will equally boost the nation’s economy by increasing our Internally Generated Revenue through agricultural value chain and other commercial activities that will come up after the local governments got their autonomy”, he said.

Kawu who appealed to President Tinubu to also look into the problem of local government election, as according to him, is another problem affecting the progress of the grassroots under democratic governance, said, “I would be glad if president Tinubu will also address challenges affecting the conduct of local government elections in the nation.

“The President should do something to stop politicians from messing up with processes of local governments elections for their personal interests.

“We are all aware how local government election is being conducted under the watch of states governors in this country.

“From the primary to the main stream election, the processes are always being manipulated by politicians for their personal interest against interests of the majority,”