₦airaland Forum

DMerciful:
All these are pretense. Tinubu the illegitimate president should do proper restructuring if he is serious.

This case is playing to the gallery. BTW, how many local govt areas has he created in SW? He did it while Obj was president. If he was not pretending then, he has the chance now.

Tinubu is a fake man

This is beyond your comprehension, it's better you stick to your wailing and obirodent career, instead of dabbling into issue beyond your intellectual capacity if you have one.

Good move from FG!!!

DMerciful:
All these are pretense. Tinubu the illegitimate president should do proper restructuring if he is serious.

This case is playing to the gallery. BTW, how many local govt areas has he created in SW? He did it while Obj was president. If he was not pretending then, he has the chance now.

Tinubu is a fake man

So you think proper restructuring will just fall from the sky onto your laps or you think it can just happen via presidential fiat, perhaps it's either you don't know why restructuring entails or just trying to be sadistic because your obi didn't win.

Restructuring is a process and this suit by federal government is a great step towards that same restructuring you just mentioned....let's sort the local govt out first then we move to how states can be confederated too....it's one step at a time

Richlolly:
It really tallies with it because Tinubu didn't give this autonomy to local government areas during his 8 years as governor, instead he created these illegal local government development areas as against the 20 local government areas recognized by the constitution of Nigeria, expecting more funds from Federal government for these illegal ones which Obasanjo rejected. If such was allowed, other governors would follow this line then, disorganizing the economy Obasanjo was just trying to revive after long destructions done since Shagari's regime till 1999.

Have you ever read the constitution?
States have constitutional power to create local governments, only obidents talk about constitution when they don't even know what it is.
Someone who hasn't seen or held the written constitution before will be talking about it like the have profound knowledge.
When OBJ cut the funds, were they functioning or not?
If the intention was for funds, would they have continued working?
What did Peter Obi do with LGA in his 7 years in office?
Scrapped them, what happened to their allocations?
Sent to Pandora account abi?

All these state governors very corrupt greedy selfish... illegally being in possession and control of local government money meant for the development of the villages communities LGA areas...the federal government will send 400 million naira for a local government and the state government will be in possession of the money and dish out 50 million naira out of the 400 million naira..50 million naira to the local government... greedy and selfish governors.. that is why you cannot see much development in the villages communities LGA areas till now

rayvelez:
Nonsense suit lol no be dis werey fought obj for creating more illegal local government.

You don't understand yourself

Good one!

Kukutente23:
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2. If caretaker committee are illegal (which I think they are) and the tenure of LG chairs is 3 years while their elections is to be conducted by SIECs, what happens in a case when the elections have not been conducted while their tenure has expired? Who runs the LGs then?

If the SIEC fails to conduct elections...then, no one should touch LGA funds...as simple as that.

Any State Government that means well for her citizen..will ensure the elections are properly conducted.

triple996:
Local government don suffer 4 this country

Local Government no suffer na the citizens dey suffer because we all come from a local government area which lack basic amenities

Helpfromabove1:
The hand of Wike the voice of FG

Ok continue

But Tinubu started this when he was lagos state governor when he created 57 LGA areas from the 27 in lagos that did not get the backing of Obasanjo and he was using the federal allocation for 27 to feed the new 30

Yes and his argument was that one local govt. In Lagos considering the number of people under one local govt. Is tooo large for one person to be able to control!!!..
The benefits of grassroots govt will not be properly felt by the people hence the splitting..
Now I must say the splitting and creation of LCDA’s has been more advantageous to Lagos resident!!!..

What they did, they now want to undo.

Thank GOD, we're getting there.

This is a welcome development! I pray the Supreme Court grants Federal Government prayers. Enough is enough.

If this goes through, local government areas of Imo state outside Owerri state capital shall begin to breathe a sigh of relief. Use of funds of the other local governments in Imo state to expand and modernise only the state capital has led to crumbling of the other cities in Imo State. Those cities were nearly of the same level of urban development with Owerri when Imo state was created in 1976.

Was this the restructuring Tinubu has been advocating since 1999?

He was clearly pretending

Lithiumite:
So you think proper restructuring will just fall from the sky onto your laps or you think it can just happen via presidential fiat, perhaps it's either you don't know why restructuring entails or just trying to be sadistic because your obi didn't win.

Restructuring is a process and this suit by federal government is a great step towards that same restructuring you just mentioned....let's sort the local govt out first then we move to how states can be confederated too....it's one step at a time

Stale

Jonjam269:
This is beyond your comprehension, it's better you stick to your wailing and obirodent career, instead of dabbling into issue beyond your intellectual capacity if you have one.

LegendHero:
Source: https://thenationonlineng.net/fed-govt-sues-36-states-at-supreme-court-over-local-govt-autonomy/amp/

Totally supported. LG must function properly for national development

triple996:
Local government don suffer 4 this country

I tell you bro. Very unfortunate

This should have been done years ago when the greedy governors of yesteryears hijacked the local government for their greedy selves.

LegendHero:
From FAAC.

—FG gets 52.68%
—States get 26.72%
—LG get 20.60%

I personally don’t believe FG should get that much percentage because it just does not make any sense. FG should also give some part of their percentage to the states/LG.

Finally, if the Supreme Court can give judgment that support full LG autonomy, that 20% will go a long way in making dividends reach the grassroot more.

The largest employers of labour in Nigeria is still the FG, most States do not have 2k workers on their payroll. The FG of Nigeria has more assets than many States put together in Nigeria, if those assets are handed over to some States, it will crumble, and the workers will be laid off. These assets are scattered across the country. What Nigeria needs is decentralisation, let every arm of government -Fed and State
For example, the US Fed spent 6 trillion last year 2023 even though the budgeted was 4 trillion...the closest State was sparsely at 220 billion (Washington DC) - The Fed still had to spend more than all the States put together.

We need complete power dissolution and state autonomy. Some States in Nigeria are parasites. And i think some other states with resources will poorly manage it, they will completely disenfranchise some of their regions without anything. That is where we will realise that the tribal sentiment in Nigeria is far from distant tribes, it is deeply rooted in States level among brothers of same States. More clashes and ethnic conflict will arise, this i have seen.

Meanwhile the states are not autonomous

At least the chairman of a local govt would be able to employ,carry out necessary work in the grassroots without the consent of the Governors, those Governors are silent criminals.

LegendHero:
From FAAC.

—FG gets 52.68%
—States get 26.72%
—LG get 20.60%

I personally don’t believe FG should get that much percentage because it just does not make any sense. FG should also give some part of their percentage to the states/LG.

Finally, if the Supreme Court can give judgment that support full LG autonomy, that 20% will go a long way in making dividends reach the grassroot more.

DMerciful:
Was this the restructuring Tinubu has been advocating since 1999?

He was clearly pretending

How Would you go about it without taking this gradual steps.....do you think you can achieve this by mere presidential fiat?

If you sort out the LG autonomy, the state's too can then start agitating for proper restructuring,even if it is what tinubu wants he cannot do it alone without the buy in of give and legislatures across all 36 states of Nigeria

If he wants, is it the rubberstamp assembly that would hinder him?

Lithiumite:
How Would you go about it without taking this gradual steps.....do you think you can achieve this by mere presidential fiat?

If you sort out the LG autonomy, the state's too can then start agitating for proper restructuring,even if it is what tinubu wants he cannot do it alone without the buy in of give and legislatures across all 36 states of Nigeria

DMerciful:
If he wants, is it the rubberstamp assembly that would hinder him?

Your lot would be the first to cry unconstitutionality if he decides to force everyone to restructure.

It's not an all size fits all there are those for and there are those definitely against and also those a little to the left and those a little to the right,then you have those right in the middle who are undecided,how do you aggregate and bring all this different interests to agreement,you think a mere presidential fiat can bring this about in a democracy?

They should also remember to sue INEC for their conievance with the state governors in selecting their stooge as local government chairmen.
Their are all complicit is the crime against local government by strategically placing their party members without any obvious electioneering process.

I meant he can easily get the lawmakers to restructure. They're rubber stamps.

I'm not talking of execute fiat

Lithiumite:
Your lot would be the first to cry unconstitutionality if he decides to force everyone to restructure.

It's not an all size fits all there are those for and there are those definitely against and also those a little to the left and those a little to the right,then you have those right in the middle who are undecided,how do you aggregate and bring all this different interests to agreement,you think a mere presidential fiat can bring this about in a democracy?

Blue3k:
My thoughts exactly. There's nothing stopping state assemblies from SIECs independent. If LGs aren't elected the FG should hold the allocation in suspense until elections are conducted. If the court does like that then the only solution is jail.

fed can't break the law

Don't mind these senseless obi boys, no single comprehension at all!

JagabanB:
How does this tally with granting LG autonomy?
Do you know the responsibilities of LG at all?
If only you know, you will appreciate this suit.

Let's tell our selves the truth, we dt have local government in.nigeria,

Why do I feel like Rivers state is at the center of this? But overall, it’s the only thing that will ensure government at the third tier is given its rightful status. But then it’s reduction of the enormous powers that the state governors currently wield.

F117nighthawk:
Very correct,he was the one who started the nonsense,by sharing the local government funds.from 20 to 57 local government
He used the funds of 20 recognized local government to fund 57 (additional 37) he created,
He had seen the impact of the monster he created.now as president he wants to correct the rubbish.
He don Sabi say he no easy.

Very senseless oblivious statement, the state house of assembly created the LCDA’s not the Governor.

Don’t be proud in exhibiting your ignorance.