Zoo politics.

TroubleMaker47:
But is this trend really legal?
Suspending legitimately elected council chairmen cuz there are non party members!
I think supreme court needs to speak on this, once n for all!

My thoughts exactly

Is this legal or constitutional but in Nigeria anything goes..

This Man will fail woefully, he does not seems to know what he is doing

This is impunity
This is lawlessness
This is a rape on democracy.
The wishes of the people must be respected in a democracy.
Branding all elected chairmen incompetent and corrupt just to get rid of them is absurd.
Local governments and Legislature must be freed from the unholy grip of the state governors.
The government must understand that the world is watching closely.

Groovenaija360:
The Jubril has directed an APC Gov Ekiti state to suspend an elected LGA chairman

And appoint Fulani herdsmen as directors

Why are the Yorubas aiding the Fulani agendas na

idiot it was the state house of assembly that suspend them

lukaino:
This is impunity
This is lawlessness
This is a rape on democracy.
The wishes of the people must be respected in a democracy.
Branding all elected chairmen incompetent and corrupt just to get rid of them is absurd.
Local governments and Legislature must be freed from the unholy grip of the state governors.
The government must understand that the world is watching closely.

stop disgracing urself was it not the state house of assembly ehich pdp was the majority that suspended them

D local government elected chairman's should go to Court....... Its political motivated, its can never stand

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9japrof:



All Nigerian governors irrespective of party divides are all tyrants, when would real separation of powers come into effect...

In a sane society, a democratically elected chairman cannot be unceremoniously removed from office by a Governor, but in Nigeria, this continues unabated since 1999.

Weather atiku or buhari wins next year, naija no get future, and that's me being optimistic

Optimistic that Naija no go better? I don die...

Best oxymoron I have heard in a while

Groovenaija360:
The Jubril has directed an APC Gov Ekiti state to suspend an elected LGA chairman

And appoint Fulani herdsmen as directors

Why are the Yorubas aiding the Fulani agendas na

Take it easy The way you carry Buhari matter for head if he wins 2019 election so you will attempt suicide. Take care of your life don't let politic spoil it

Hmm... His loyalist you mean..


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TroubleMaker47:
But is this trend really legal?
Suspending legitimately elected council chairmen cuz there are non party members!
I think supreme court needs to speak on this, once n for all!

GOVERNORS CANNOT SACK LOCAL GOVT COUNCILS!
-Supreme Court

THE Supreme Court has voided laws enacted by the states’ Houses of Assembly which allow governors to sack elected Chairmen of Local Governments and Councillors and replace them appointed administrators.

It has of recent become a tradition among governors to dissolve the Executive Councils of the states’ LGs and replace them with their appointees, who they call caretaker committees. In a unanimous judgement of five Justices of the Supreme Court described the practice as “executive recklessness”, which must not be allowed to persist.

The judgment by the five-man panel, led by Justice Olabode Rhodes-Vivour was on the appeal in relation to the dissolution of the 16 Local Government Executives in Ekiti State, during Kayode Fayemi’s tenure.

The appeal marked:SC/120/2013 was filed by the Ekiti State Government. It had Prince Sanmi Olubunmo (Chairman of Ido Osi LG and Chairman of Association of Local Government’s of Nigeria – ALGON, Ekiti Chapter and 13 others as respondents. Fayemi, now Minister of Mineral Resources reportedly announced the dissolution of the councils in a radio announcement on October 29, 2010, when the elected council officials still had up till December 19, 2011 to end their three-year tenure.

The Supreme Court, in faulting the law purportedly relied on by Fayemi, held that Section 23(b) of the Ekiti State Local Government Administration (Amendment) Law, 2001, which empowered the governor to dissolve local government councils, whose tenure was yet to expire, violated section 7(1) of the Constitution from which the state House of Assembly derived the power to enact the local government law. Justice Centus Nweze, in the lead judgment, said: “There can be no doubt, as argued by the appellants’ counsel, that the Ekiti State House of Assembly is empowered to make laws of Ekiti State.

“However, the snag here is that, in enacting section 23(b) of the Ekiti State Local Government Administration (Amendment) Law, 2001, which empowered the first appellant to bridge the tenure of office of the respondents, it overreached itself. “In other words, section 23(b) (supra) is violative of, and in conflict with section 7(1) of the Constitution (supra). “Hence, it is bound to suffer the fate of ll laws which are in conflict with the Constitution, section 1(3) thereof.”

The judge Said Section 7(1) of the Constitution seeks to guarantee “the system of local government by democratically-elected local government councils and conferred “sacrosanctity on the elections of such officials whose electoral mandates derived from the will of the people freely exercised through the democratic process”.

“The implication, therefore, is that section 23(b) of thethe Ekiti State Local Government Administration (Amendment) Law, 2001, which was not intended to ‘ensure the existence of’ such democratically-elected councils, but to snap their continued existence by their substitution with caretaker councils, was enacted in clear breach of the supreme provisions of section 7(1) of the Constitution.

“To that extent, it (section 23(b) supra) cannot co-habit with section 7(1) of the Constitution (supra) and must, in consequence, be invalidated. “The reason is simple. By his oath of office, the governor swore to protect and not to supplant the Constitution.

“Hence, any action of his which has the capacity of undermining the same Constitution (as in the instant case where the first appellant, ‘Governor of Ekiti State and others’ dissolved the tenure of the respondents and replaced them with caretaker committees) is tantamount to executive recklessness which would not be condoned,” the judge said. Justice Nweze said the the tenure of the local government councils could not be abridged without violating the supreme constitutional provisions.

“Simply put, therefore, the election of such officials into their offices and their tenure are clothed with constitutional force. They cannot, therefore, be abridged without breaching the Constitution from which they derive their force. “The only permissible exception, where a state governor could truncate the lifespan of a local government council which evolved through the democratic process of elections, is ‘for overriding public interest’ in a period of emergency.”

He upheld the earlier decision of the Court of Appeal on the issue and adopted the orders made by the Court of Appeal on the case in its judgment delivered on January 23, 2013. The Appeal Court had among others, ordered 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. Justice Nweze directed the Attorney- General of Ekiti State to ensure that the orders of the lower court (Appeal Court) affirmed in his judgment, are complied with.
Copyright
The Nation.

fratermathy:


The governor did not suspend them himself. It was a legislative action. He only used his statutory powers to appoint overseers. These appointments are temporary.

Can the National assembly suspend elected governors only for the president to appoint coordinating governors in every state?

ok

TroubleMaker47:
But is this trend really legal?
Suspending legitimately elected council chairmen cuz there are non party members!
I think supreme court needs to speak on this, once n for all!

They were suspended because of the corrupt practices which fayose obviously pushed them to do.

Now that fayose is gone, they are facing the music alone. They are already languishing as most of them are now broke

fratermathy:


The governor did not suspend them himself. It was a legislative action. He only used his statutory powers to appoint overseers. These appointments are temporary.

He didn't suspend personally, but influenced their suspension for his selfish interest. I weep for Ekiti state "Fountain of Knowledge" most foolish in the nation. Politics of bitterness

9japrof:



All Nigerian governors irrespective of party divides are all tyrants, when would real separation of powers come into effect...

In a sane society, a democratically elected chairman cannot be unceremoniously removed from office by a Governor, but in Nigeria, this continues unabated since 1999.

Weather atiku or buhari wins next year, naija no get future, and that's me being optimistic

They were suspended by d pdp dominated state house of assembly not d governor

post=74170846:
Ekiti people never made a mistake for voting for this wonderful GOVERNOR.

Welcome to your NEXT LEVEL already Ekitirians!

This is only the beginning!

that is illegality. they were constitutionally elected anyway I have forgotten APC don't follow our constitution right from the top

I have said it and I'll continue saying it.

To keep this useless country running things like this won't stop happening


Shithole

post=74170846:
Ekiti people never made a mistake for voting for this wonderful GOVERNOR.

Welcome to your NEXT LEVEL already Ekitirians!

This is only the beginning!

sacking of Elected people and Replacing them with appointed persons is HIGH DEGREE CORRUPTION!!

Suspended elected officials?

darkcaesar03360:
abuse of power at its peak..... apc leaders have no regards for the constitution

but you can hail Fayose for beating the judges

Please if I may ask, aside impeachment do the house of rep have the power to remove an elected official?

post=74170846:
Ekiti people never made a mistake for voting for this wonderful GOVERNOR.

Welcome to your NEXT LEVEL already Ekitirians!

This is only the beginning!

do yhu have sense, why will you be celebratiog d illegal sack of elective council chairman, plz grow up