Richard Akinjide in his own words (5) vanguardnews
. It should also take over election petitions pertaining to Federal Legislature.There could be election petitions about the Senate, there could be petitions about the National Assembly and I would not advise that all these should go to the State courts. These should go to Federal courts. Again, this is talking from my own experience, you do not want to use the machinery of states for the purpose of adjudicating on Federal elections either to the Senate or the National Assembly.
Mr. Chairman, this court transcends the state of origin. The gentleman in Ibadan now is from Port Harcourt and the gentleman in the Revenue Court in Sokoto before was from Anambra. Nothing is better than this and the trend of appointing people of state origin as court judges, I think, this will certainly be an improvement on it. Mr. Chairman, I will try to wind up.
If you look at what they did during the civil war, without a good civil service during our trouble, I do not know what this country would have become. Furthermore, we should not scare them away. I know as a fact that some civil servants want to run away before 1979. We should be very careful of new and inexperienced politicians and new inexperienced civil servants.
Now on local governments, if we look at the Third Schedule specific functions are given to local governments. The local government is the infrastructure of any government and they are made an important tier of a governmental system but we should make sure that they are given sufficient money to run their essential services which we itemised in the Third Schedule.
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