{"id":331113,"date":"2024-07-15T19:43:17","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T18:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=331113"},"modified":"2024-07-15T19:43:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T18:43:17","slug":"why-local-govt-autonomy-is-bad-fayose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2024\/07\/15\/why-local-govt-autonomy-is-bad-fayose\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Local Govt autonomy is bad \u2014 Fayose"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>He disclosed that state Houses of Assembly and the governors will always be an impediment to local government independence<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Former Ekiti State Governor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2024\/07\/02\/why-tinubu-must-release-nnamdi-kanu-fayose\/\">Ayo Fayose<\/a>, says granting local government councils in Nigeria full financial autonomy will not bode well for the country.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that the Supreme Court last week Thursday ruled that it is illegal for State government to withhold the allocations of local governments as they have the right to receive monthly allocations directly from the federation account.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the judgment, the chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party stressed that local government will not amount to much without the State government.<\/p>\n<p>He disclosed that state Houses of Assembly and the governors will always be an impediment to local government independence.<\/p>\n<p>Fayose made his position known when he featured as a guest on Sunday\u2019s edition of Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that nobody from the grassroots can emerge as a local government chairman without the support of a governor.<\/p>\n<p>He also bemoaned the attitude of most workers at the local government level to work, adding that they do not take their work seriously and many workers don\u2019t bother to come to work on certain days of the week.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cI am not a lawyer. I am a politician and by God\u2019s grace today, I am an elder statesman. While I love and do not believe that any government should take local government funds, may I say to you very clearly this evening that you cannot take the baby from the mother? There is nobody that can become council chairman without a governor. Anybody telling you otherwise is wasting his time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me quickly remind you that the House of Assembly of every state controls the activities and checkmates the activities of the local government. While I was governor, I had the privilege of receiving money from Abuja. When you receive money from the account, some people manage the account. They are not politicians or the council chairman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is only one representative of the governor, which is the local government commissioner. All others are local government officials, workers, and pensioners of the council. And they appropriate the funds. But when you now come and say we are giving power to the local government, what power are you giving to them? No power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He disclosed that if any chairman feels he can now do anyhow because he now receives allocations directly, the State assembly will remove him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny council chairman who says \u2018Money is coming to me, I will disrespect my governor\u2019 the House of Assembly will tell you to go and disobey him inside your house. This is because you can never even be a council chairman without the governor standing up for you. The House of Assembly regulates your activities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGo to the council meeting on Wednesday or Friday, you will not find 10 per cent of the staff of the local government in the office. They don\u2019t come. My name is Ayo Fayose and I want them to dispute this. They don\u2019t come to work. When you make moves to bring them to book, both NULGE and all leaders of the local government will go and beg the governor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey will be telling you, we will not vote for you. This is the way we operate at the local government. The state is more effective in administrative performance than the local government. At the local government, everybody comes to collect money. Even people have left some states. They live somewhere else and money just hit their accounts,\u201d he added<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He disclosed that state Houses of Assembly and the governors will always be an impediment to local government independence Former Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, says granting local government councils in Nigeria full financial autonomy will not bode well for the country. 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