Melagros:
COMRADES, anyone who thinks that the so-called local government autonomy will function effectively, you are dreaming
Because the governors will definitely plant their stooges in every local government area who will be sending them returns. So the joint account will still be functional through the backdoor

Nwaikpe:
The idiot called Onanuga, speaking for the piggish government thought they could rope Peter Obi in. Peter Obi in his wisdom never replied the bastards because little did the Adviser know, politics does not play out that way.


Peter Obi has always been on the side of low cost governance. And with this supreme court ruling, lets expect every Local Government Government to have their ow 20 special advisers too, and ministers.

No be only low cost governance, na low budget governance.
Dey deceive yourself

gr8child:
He is just talking his own. Local Governments used to be very independent and very influential at the grassroots level before the current republic and nobody died. Prince Demola Adeniji-Adele was a very powerful local government chairman of Lagos Island under the IBB and Abacha regimes. State governors just want to keep local governments under their control by keeping a grip on their financial purse strings. This is understandable because governors need grassroots support to win elections and don't want any unforeseen spoilers come election time.

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.

Shikena:

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

Cmanforall:


Or electronic transmission of results.
It's easier at LG level. Everybody knows their Ward's result and can easily be added up to know who actually wins

Melagros:
COMRADES, anyone who thinks that the so-called local government autonomy will function effectively, you are dreaming
Because the governors will definitely plant their stooges in every local government area who will be sending them returns. So the joint account will still be functional through the backdoor

justuschi50:
No! I can say for state and LG but federal system has strict work culture. I know this because my dad was a federal worker he hardly miss work because of the system

Sermwell:

Someone who is far more experienced than you in politics is telling you something and you're here arguing rubbish!
Without even being told, don't you know that move is trash?
A whole former governor is telling you something and you have the guts to doubt?

The masses are indeed gullible and stupid