The Chief Whip of the Senate, Mohammed Ali Ndume, on Friday, hailed the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, for initiating a court action at the Supreme Court, which has now birthed a new financial regime for local government councils across the country.
In its judgment, the apex court directed that local government allocations from the Federation Account should be paid directly to them, going forward. The Supreme Court declared that it was unconstitutional for state governors to hold onto funds meant for local government areas. In its lead judgment, read by Justice Emmanuel Agim, the highest court in Nigeria, observed that the refusal of state governments on financial autonomy to local governments has gone on for over two decades.
The former Leader of the Senate, said since state governors hijacked the local government administration in Nigeria, by relying on a controversial section of the 1999 Constitution as amended, no meaningful development has happened at the grassroots. He said: “This court action instituted at the behest of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is his biggest achievement of. I’m very happy about the development, and I’m hoping that this will be the beginning of the liberation of local governments in Nigeria.
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