If the country wants to be honest to itself and be sincere, LG election should be held during general elections. If it happens what fayosr said here won't hold.

SmartPolician:
LG autonomy can only work if electoral laws are amended to allow Abuja INEC conduct LGA elections. If not, if governors put their stooges in LGAs in a sham election, they will still be remitting whatever they get from Abuja to the governors.

That is what we are telling them but they no dey hear.

In Oyo we call the state Inec, Oyseic. Let us do away with them and all elections be conducted by Inec. Let the LG and Govornors do their election same day and they run their term at the same time

4 Year tenure. Not a 3year tenure for LG. It should also be 4years like the Govornors

But Iro,instead to do this and other restructuring, they are just beating around the bush.

Most LG workers don't go to work.
Many are busy doing their side businesses.

He is a 💯 percent correct,local government chairmen will still be loyal to the governors,all this autonomy na wash.

Are these politicians serious at all playing with the destiny of innocent Nigerians

this clown should have been locked away. Bleep GEJ for reinstating this idiot and fk the media for giving him a microphone.
a clown who belongs in the dustbin of history. he and his useless brother
what does fayose know about governing beyond social media stunts and celebration of poverty

Mr Fayose, are you admitting thar the governors have no respect for the law? I hope some governors will come out and denounce this bait

favour32:
Most LG workers don't go to work.
Many are busy doing their side businesses.

CORRECTION: Many government workers - Federal, State, LG.

Former Governor Fayose: one step at a time!


The next step is to dissolve State "Independent" Electoral Commissions (SIEC).



On state houses of assembly kowtowing to the whims and caprices of State Governors to blackmail LG Chairmen, henceforth could only be done within the ambit of the law.



Real local administration is gradually coming to the grassroots.



Those days when state feudalist Governors acted with impunity by lording it over LG Chairmen while siphoning their finances are gone.




Suffri suffri catch monkey!




@hotseat

Leave them alone. If you like, go and do stooge for Governor. Without immunity, you will still do stooge for the governor inside Kuje prison.

adioolayi:
Oya na...

Make LG Chairmen misappropriate the funds directly sent to them na..

We go know is na Governors go go jail or the Chairmen wey no get immunity

That's a lie!

El sir, it will work sir.
Though you're right about the emergence claim, but e shall work just as governors own self began working one day too.
When they start getting their money and development themselves, governor to chairman will just be like president to governors.

Chiefpriestt:
Oshokomole himself.

Nothing but the truth you said

So local government chairman don't come from other parties or what?

They have their constitutional roles so why is the governor acting like a dictator?

But governors become governors without the help of the president right?


I think when elections start from the bottom up, this would change dramatically.

Chiefpriestt:
Oshokomole himself.

Nothing but the truth you said

So because a governor supported him to be chairman,you people of the LG will just allow your chairman to hand over your allocation to the Governor...Then all of you are fools and mumu in that LGM

WHOEVER USE THIS FAYOSE REASONS AS ARGUMENT AGAINST LG AUTONOMY IS JUST GASLIGHTING.

So because a president supported a governor to be governor,the governor will just be handing over his state allocation to the FG??

So because a governor supported him to be chairman,you people of the LG will just allow your chairman to hand over your allocation to the Governor...Then all of you are fools and mumu in that LGM

WHOEVER USE THIS FAYOSE REASONS AS ARGUMENT AGAINST LG AUTONOMY IS JUST GASLIGHTING.

So because a president supported a governor to be governor,the governor will just be handing over his state allocation to the FG??

alizma:
This is nonsense coming from him, so we should just assume that the entire population is at the mercy of the governor's right?
He should wait and see, a governor's interest for reelection can also be frustrated by a group of local government chairmen if he thinks he is the alpha and Omega.

It's one step at a time. I believe Fayose had a motive. Laws don't come perfect they get tuned and fine tuned until they are really useful

hafeeanubasy:

So because a governor supported him to be chairman,you people of the LG will just allow your chairman to hand over your allocation to the Governor...Then all of you are fools and mumu in that LGM

WHOEVER USE THIS FAYOSE REASONS AS ARGUMENT AGAINST LG AUTONOMY IS JUST GASLIGHTING.

So because a president supported a governor to be governor,the governor will just be handing over his state allocation to the FG??

Your common sense will not stop working

ElevationD:
How?

The only reason why things never work can be found in the I-don’t-care attitude of the citizens. Nigerians are easily able to digest all the recklessness of the political class and yet praise them to the highest heavens.

If we must practice democracy, we must follow up in all the sense of it. We watch other democratic nations talking about their local councils. We see how local councils benefit the citizens. One wonders how governors, past and present, sermonize us on how allowing local governments run appropriately would not work.

We already know that Nigerian politics is godfather based. We know that even a Presidential candidate needs some powers that be to help him get there, how much less a governor and other political office holders. Who holds most of them by the scruff of their necks when they assume office? Even the President is checkmated by the National Assembly. So what’s Fayose talking about state assemblies? He can fool some including himself, but he cannot fool everyone. He must grow beyond his jaguda politics. A man who shortchanged his own party in the last Presidential election should not be telling us such crap. He should bow his face in shame.

We all now know that it is the law to forward local government funds directly into their accounts. We await to see that local government chairman who would forward his local government’s funds into the state government account, as a show of loyalty.

Having attained success at the Supreme Court, next would be the states to mind their areas of jurisdiction and allow local government carry out their statutory functions as spelt out by the constitution.

We would like to see INEC conducting local government elections and not state electoral commissions. We saw the examples last weekend with Adamawa and Delta states, where the ruling parties won the entire seats. That’s the loophole for governors to hold local governments by the jugular. With INEC, all parties would participate and equitable representation would be guaranteed all citizens.

We would expect EFCC and ICPC to be very active in the local governments, formulating policies that would protect the resources for development in their accounts.

We need real reformist as president 💯🔥

witworth:
El sir, it will work sir.
Though you're right about the emergence claim, but e shall work just as governors own self began working one day too.
When they start getting their money and development themselves, governor to chairman will just be like president to governors.

You dey mind those ones.
Na gaslighting dem day do.
Its like saying all APC governors are giving their states allocations to FG and TINUBU.

Those people arguing in this line actually target OBI slaves for support!

ObiORBiafra:


Your common sense will not stop working

Amen and yours?

Nonsense talk. It's like saying "nobody becomes governor without the president"

That was the past , it's the people that will decide who they want to be chairmen of their respective L.G.A's.

Jonjam269:

You are the original pi.g and rubbish mumu. Who is bitter obi a serial party defector and Pandora fraudster! Obingo that didn't conduct local government through his 8years disastrous rule as Anambra State governor.

Sweet to learn that you took your time to learn about his governance.

I really don't have the time to learn about people you esteem. They are unimportant.

fergie001:
The former Ekiti State Governor was in a one-on-one interview on ChannelsTV


- Peter Ayodele Fayose

True.
Nevertheless, with this LG financial autonomy breakthru, unpopular governors can no longer thrive in nigeria.
the likes of Peter Obi, Adams Oshiomole, Ben Ayade, Godwin Obaseki and even Fayose himself would never have survived as governors, were this LG autonomy enforced in their days

Cmanforall:
It's a starting point.
Soon, the people will start determining who their chairman will be. Just a matter of time.

Imagine a known and respected person comes out to contest for Chairmanship, and he's in a different party from the Governor's. If the people of his LGA loves him and truly votes for him, it will be a calamity to declare another candidate (Governor's choice) as the LG Chairman.
It's just a matter of time.

That is a long way to go. The Constitution needs to be amended first. Provided the constitution empowers the House of Assembly to oversee the Local government, the governors will always have their way through the Assemblies.

Indeed this is the mere truth....nothing happens in most LGAs. What they know is at the end of the month, they will all gathered in mass to come collect their money!

oluwaseyi0:
best is to merge their election with the general election

positive comment

GloriousGbola:
this clown should have been locked away. Bleep GEJ for reinstating this idiot and fk the media for giving him a microphone.
a clown who belongs in the dustbin of history. he and his useless brother
what does fayose know about governing beyond social media stunts and celebration of poverty

Please dispute his submission with superior argument if you have a better understand of the system than him; not just calling names.

jaxxy:


So local government chairman don't come from other parties or what?

They have their constitutional roles so why is the governor acting like a dictator?

This is the fact but we tried to shy away with realities in this country.