The apex court also noted that the replacement of the sacked officials with caretaker committees was illegal and fined Mr Makinde’s administration N20 million.
While the court agreed that the tenures of the sacked council chairmen and councillors have expired, it ordered that all their outstanding salaries and allowances must be paid with immediate effect.who were elected in 2018. He told them to hand over the property of their councils to the most senior staffer in their respective local government areas.
The officials, drawn from the 33 local government areas and 35 local council development areas and their councillors, were members of the ruling All Progressives Congress .The officials were later replaced with caretaker chairmen and councillors who belong to the Peoples Democratic Party . Following their removal, the sacked officials under the umbrella of the Association of Local Government of Nigeria under the leadership of Abass Aleshinloye, approached an Oyo State High Court in Ibadan.
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