APC govs want LG autonomy to be determined by State Assembly ilorin.info/fullnews.php?id=5546 "For those who may have been misled by the media reports, we want to state our stand clearly. In the first instance, the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria gives the State Houses of Assembly the power to create local governments. Therefore, autonomy for local governments should be debated at the Houses of Assembly, not at the National Assembly. "Secondly, giving control of the local governments to the federal government, one of the two federating units in a federalist system of government, will only result in the creation of a unitary government. "And thirdly, all local government administration must be democratically elected in a free and fair election, while Chairmen and Councillors must be accountable to those who elected them. "We are a welfarist party and we believe in accountability and abhor any system where any local government administration is not elected freely and fairly. The appointment of caretaker committees to run local governments is an aberration. This is our stand and it definitely does not represent an opposition to autonomy for local governments," APC said.
Posted on: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 13:44:36 +0000
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