The Nation Newspaper Fagbemi advocates scrapping of State Electoral Commissions
has canvassed for the abolition of the State Independent Electoral Commission to guarantee a democratic system of electing local government chairmen in the country.
According to him, the nearness of local governments to the people places them in a position where they can easily articulate and aggregate the demands of the people. A government operating at the grassroots level is indeed, more likely to be attached to the needs of the people. He maintained that with these weak constitutional provisions, the lifespan of the local government councils is at the mercy of the State governments. There is no consistent pattern of local government elections. Some State governors dissolved their Councils and appointed Caretaker Committees.
“Rather than function as a tier of government, LGAs have been operating as an appendage of the State governments in Nigeria. The constitutional provisions on State Joint Local Government Account ) have placed the local government councils in a political bondage. “The local governments in many instances have continued to suffer fiscal emasculation in the hands of state governments. In all these unwholesome abuses, Sections 7 and 162 of the 1999 Constitution among others have been an escape route for many State Governments to manipulate the Local government and reduce same to a mere department in the Governor’s office.
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