The supreme court has fixed Thursday, July 11, 2024, to deliver judgment in the suit seeking full autonomy for the 774 local governments...
The supreme court will deliver judgment on the suit seeking full autonomy for the 774 local governments in the country on July 11.
In the suit filed by Lateef Fagbemi, attorney-general of the federation, the federal government is also asking for an order preventing the governors from arbitrarily dissolving democratically elected councils.The federal government also requested the apex court to authorise the direct transfer of funds from the federation account to local governments — in accordance with the constitution.
“That in the face of the clear provisions of the constitution, the governors have failed and refused to put in place a democratically elected local government system even where no state of emergency has been declared to warrant the suspension of democratic institutions in the state. “That the failure of the governors to put democratically elected local government system in place is a deliberate subversion of the 1999 Constitution which they and the President have sworn to uphold.
“That all efforts to make the governors comply with the dictates of the 1999 Constitution in terms of putting in place a democratically elected local government system, has not yielded any result and that to continue to disburse funds from the federation account to governors for non existing democratically elected local governments is to undermine the sanctity of the 1999 constitution.
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