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Miffed by the lukewarm approach of some state governors on the implementation of Supreme Court judgement on Local Government autonomy in Nigeria, The Ogun State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Abayomi Tella, has urged all state governors to implement the Supreme Court judgement on local government autonomy.
He argued that implementing the judgement would relieve them of the burden of governance at the grassroots level.
Speaking in an interview with the media at the weekend, Tella said local government chairmen were doing nothing at the grassroots level, stressing that the council chairmen in Ogun State were “financially incapacitated”
The Ogun State PDP chairman lamented that despite the Supreme Court judgement granting financial autonomy to the 774 local government councils, many states were yet to comply with the verdict.
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He said, “Well, it’s quite unfortunate that our people don’t realise what a local government administration is, particularly our governors. What is happening today in Ogun State does not go in line with what the Supreme Court has just delivered.
“As we speak, Ogun State local governments do not have any autonomy. I live in the grassroots; I’m a grassroots politician, and I can say there is nothing called autonomy for the local government in the state.
Chief Tella calls on the federal government and other stakeholders to ensure that the Supreme Court judgement is implemented to the letter so that the local governments can truly gain freedom and deliver good Gov at the grassroots.
