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A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Dr. Joseph Nwobike SAN has praised the judgement of the Supreme Court on local government autonomy, describing
it as “auspicious constitutional development”.
He also commended the Attorney General of the Federation and justices of the Supreme Court for giving autonomy to the local government councils across Nigeria.
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He said: “As we all know, the very important component of this development is how to ensure that true democracy occurs at the local council level in Nigeria. As it currently stands, it does not seem that true democratic values guide the elections into the councils across the country.
“ A situation where only the candidates of the political parties in control at the state levels win elections into the local councils is unhealthy. Those with legislative authority to ensure the constitution of democratic processes into local councils should do more to ensure that elections into local councils are conducted in transparent manner. In this connection, it is recommended that the elections into local councils should be conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission and on independent candidacy basis. Political parties should be intentionally excluded from fielding candidates for election into the councils across the country. This way, the locals should be able to elect those that they know will deliver real value to them,” he said
