Confab: NULGE rejects administrative status for LGs

Speaking to journalists in Abuja, President of Yobe State chapter of NULGE Comrade Musa El-Badawy, who insisted that the local government should continue to remain a federating unit as being presently recognized by the 1999 constitution, pointed out that turning it into an administrative unit will subject the system to the excruciating control of the […]

Speaking to journalists in Abuja, President of Yobe State chapter of NULGE Comrade Musa El-Badawy, who insisted that the local government should continue to remain a federating unit as being presently recognized by the 1999 constitution, pointed out that turning it into an administrative unit will subject the system to the excruciating control of the state assemblies
El-Badawy urged the committee not to temper with the views of Nigerians who are overwhelmingly in support of local government autonomy at a recent public session held by the National Assembly in all the federal constituencies in the country.
“The union knows that the issue of local government is an almost settled matter through various past efforts. The National Conference can only build on this and adopt it for a grand norm in Nigeria and not to sabotage or put the country in a reverse gear through its positions,” he said.