The Supreme Court on Friday described as “executive recklessness” the now rampant acts of governors dissolving democratically-elected local government councils in their states and replacing them with caretaker committees.

The apex court also nullified the provisions of the laws enacted by the states’ Houses of Assembly empowering governors to carry out such dissolution and replace them with caretaker committees.

A five-man panel of the apex court led by Justice Olabode Rhodes-Vivour, made the pronouncements, among others, in a unanimous judgment it delivered on Friday.

The appeal in which the Supreme Court made the pronouncements arose from the dissolution of 16 local government councils in Ekiti State by the then Governor Kayode Fayemi.

Fayemi, who is now the Minister of Mineral Resources, was said to have announced the dissolution of the councils in a radio announcement on October 29, 2010, when the chairmen still had up till December 19, 2011, to complete their three-year tenure.

But in the lead judgment delivered by Justice Chima Nweze, the apex court condemned the decision of the then governor.

The apex court adopted an earlier order made by the Court of Appeal on the case in its judgment delivered on January 23, 2013, directing the Ekiti State Government to compute and pay all the allowances and salaries accruable to members of the dissolved councils between October 29, 2010 and December 19, 2011, both dates inclusive.

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This judgement just dey do me yori yori..

An applause & champagne swigging moments... very very brilliant decision... This is 50% of the battle , the remaining 50% is seperating states & lgs accounts.... By the time this is done, some governors will not only resign of their own volition, some whose main focus is purely "chop chop" will not even bother...

This will also strengthen LG administration in two ways, it will attract better than area warlords/local touts & best of all, LGs & councillors are in the same community.

Make we dey look the excuses for bad portions of inner roads /streets then....

This is a good development..

The apex court adopted an earlier order made by the Court of Appeal on the case in its judgment delivered on January 23, 2013, directing the Ekiti State Government to compute and pay all the allowances and salaries accruable to members of the dissolved councils between October 29, 2010 and December 19, 2011, both dates inclusive.

Their bank alert na gbaga m..

Nice

Has anyone noticed that since the start of the cleansing of the SC,judgements now emanating from it now looks like that done by men that are worthy of the apex court of any land.I expect more groundbreaking judgements as more cases are decided.Its no longer judgements of the highest bidder.

So long as LG and States have a joint financial account the one plays the piper will dictate its tune.
The National Assembly should as a matter of national important to first of all repeal the law joining LG Account with states. Without this being done LGA will always be under the mercy of the various states governors

Nice one, i kept wondering how the Governors are vested with auch powers.

Imagine a situation where people cue to vote and elect a chairman only for a Governor to juat remove him from office, why vote then?

Atiku2019

Very nice move

Wike should quickly reinstate the LGA Chairmen he dissolved.

I know the matter is still in court and with this ruling i see the chairmen returning back to office.

baybeeboi:
Nice one, i kept wondering how the Governors are vested with auch powers.

Imagine a situation where people cue to vote and elect a chairman only for a Governor to juat remove him from office, why vote then?

The military wrote the 1999 constitution, most of them had plans of exchanging khaki for agbada, that's why we have idiotic things like "immunity clause"!! Oloshi dem.

Isn't it better to separate state and LG account once and for all?
You strip gov to remove lg chairman but leav their allocation in their hand.

Anyway still good news sha... But separate their allocations acc, that way pure judgment would have been delivered

Great

Long overdue.

Nice one from supreme court

Thank God, gud decision.

modath:

This judgement just dey do me yori yori..

An applause & champagne swigging moments... very very brilliant decision... This is 50% of the battle , the remaining 50% is seperating states & lgs accounts.... By the time this is done, some governors will not only resign of their own volition, some whose main focus is purely "chop chop" will not even bother...

This will also strengthen LG administration in two ways, it will attract better than area warlords/local touts & best of all, LGs & councillors are in the same community.

Make we dey look the excuses for bad portions of inner roads /streets then....

We will definitely get there.

Nigeria will be great again

princemillla:
Isn't it better to separate state and LG account once and for all?
You strip gov to remove lg chairman but leav their allocation in their hand.

Anyway still good news sha... But separate their allocations acc, that way pure judgment would have been delivered

Its the next step in the process. Either they go about it through courts, State Assembly or NASS.

doctokwus:
Has anyone noticed that since the start of the cleansing of the SC,judgements now emanating from it now looks like that done by men that are worthy of the apex court of any land.I expect more groundbreaking judgements as more cases are decided.Its no longer judgements of the highest bidder.

Crass nonsense.

Atleast.... This one is still okay...

First best news read today

Its about time, more responsibilities to those LGA chairmen

Beautiful!
Now they won't be sitting ducks.

This is good news. Buhari will not like this

I have always wonder why some1 elected shud have the power to remove some1 elected...you have disenfranchised those voters na.

This and only this was the reason former governor Idris Wada lost his seat...how can u sack LG chairmen and expect them to work for u

wow

Thank God for mallam Buhari.

Long overdue

Okoroawusa your cup don full

Wike will be disappointed because if APC win the LGAs today he would look for way to sack them.

Good
Now waiting for the National Assembly to finish work on constitutional amendment on the same issue

Very correct.






The state Governors be like.