The Labour Party caucus of the Anambra State House of Assembly has resisted alleged attempt by the governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo to arm twist local government chairmen into paying their federal government allocation back to the state.
Anambra had last two weeks held its local government election, in which all the candidates of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, who are loyal to Governor Soludo won all the 21 Local Government Areas. But members of the Labour Party in the state assembly are alleging that a bill before the house is seeking to arm twist the chairmen to send back the local government allocation received directly from the federal government back to the state coffers.
'That going by the extant order of the Supreme Court, the State House of Assembly cannot make laws seeking to compel the Local governments to pay in their Federal Allocation to the State Government under whatever guise. 'We therefore stand with the overwhelming majority of Anambra people in upholding the constitution and the Supreme Court decision.
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