Council autonomy battle rages at Supreme Court

Thirty-six governors have seven days to present their defence to the suit filed against them by the Federal Government over the management of funds belonging to local councils.

Odoh, however, requested that the defendants be given 15 days as against the five days requested by the federal government. Justice Garba ordered that the eight states that were absent should be served with fresh hearing notice against the next adjourned date. The federal government is praying the apex court for an order prohibiting governors “from unilateral, arbitrary and unlawful dissolution of democratically elected leaders for Local Governments.”It is also praying the Supreme Court for an order permitting the funds standing in the credits of Local Governments to be directly channeled to them from the Federation Account in line with the provisions of the Constitution, as against the alleged unlawful joint accounts created by governors.

“The governors represent the component states of the Federation with Executive Governors who have also sworn to uphold the Constitution and to at all times, give effects to the Constitution and that the Constitution, being the supreme law, has binding force all over the Federation of Nigeria. “In the face of the clear provisions of the Constitution, the governors have failed and refused to put in place a democratically elected local government system even where no state of emergency has been declared to warrant the suspension of democratic institutions in the state.

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