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judgement granting financial autonomy to the local governments. Some have gleefully touted this legal victory as the early beginnings of restructuring. Unfortunately, nearly everyone is mistaken, not excluding the Supreme Court.
Thursday’s judgement brought to an ecstatic and probably cathartic end the suit filed by the Attorney General of the Federation , Lateef Fagbemi, in May praying the Supreme Court to order the direct allocation of funds from the federation account to the local governments, and another order prohibiting the dissolution of local governments by governors or appointment of caretaker committees.
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