He said that if he were a member of the national assembly, he would mobilise others to amend sections of the Constitution to totally prohibit the appointment of Local Government Chairmen and allow the people at the grassroots to decide who led them, through the election.
Jonathan described the local government system as the oldest globally accepted means through which government impacted positively on the lives of the people at the grassroots and that any bill seeking to delist it from the constitution amounted to an abuse of democratic tenets and procedures. “The president should manage the nation, governors should manage the states and chairmen should be allowed to run the local councils.
“It is an abuse of democracy. So this appointment system have made council chairmen become like aides to the governors and we must discourage that,” he said. “We started the struggle in 2016 and the 7th and 8th Assemblies graciously passed the LGA autonomy bill into law.
Those clamouring for the de-listment of the LGAs r either ignorant or foolish.Their plan is dead on arrival.
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