Governors Won’t Allow LG Autonomy To Work – Fayose

Former Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose has stated that Governors and Houses of Assembly will frustrate attempt to grant local government autonomy.

Fayose stated this while featuring on Sunday’s edition of Channels Television’s Politics Today.

He expressed concern over Thursday’s Supreme Court judgment affirming local governments’ right to receive monthly allocations directly from the federation account.

The PDP Stalwart emphasised that despite the court judgment, state Houses of Assembly and the governors will always be a clog in the wheel of local government autonomy.

While stressing that nobody from the grassroots can emerge as a local government chairman without the support of a governor, the Ekiti politician said both the court and FG ‘cannot take the baby from the mother.’

His words: “I am not a lawyer. I am a politician and by God’s grace today, I am an elder statesman. While I love and do not believe that any government should take local government funds, may I say to you very clearly this evening that you cannot take the baby from the mother? There is nobody that can become council chairman without a governor. Anybody telling you otherwise is wasting his time.”