The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo state has accused the manager chairmen and profession officers in all 33 native authorities councils of working Governor Seyi Makinde’s agenda, saying it might lead them into potential authorized hassle.
The APC warned that the council leaders would possibly face authorized penalties if they didn’t distance themselves from Makinde’s efforts to undermine the current Supreme Courtroom choice granting monetary autonomy to native governments.
The social gathering’s publicity secretary, Olawale Sadare, accused Governor Makinde of disrespecting constitutional democracy and the rule of legislation.
The assertion additionally accused the governor of getting an extreme ambition to make Oyo State a separate republic from Nigeria to place himself as a determine to be worshipped.
The assertion identified that Governor Makinde had emerged as the one governor among the many 36 states to criticise the Supreme Courtroom’s verdict, describing it as a distraction.
Sadare stated the governor additionally inaugurated a particular committee to evaluation the judgement and mandated its members to make suggestions that might allow him to take care of the established order relating to the joint account association between states and native authorities councils.
The assertion reads, “The entire world didn’t realise the magnitude of injury accomplished to the third tier of presidency in Oyo state within the final 62 months till Gov. Makinde got here out brazenly to castigate each the federal authorities and the Judiciary on the problem of economic autonomy”.
“The governor had been preventing tooth and nail to advertise an unpopular name for a reversal of the decision, which had been described, by most individuals, as a victory for the plenty.
It could be recalled that the 33 council chairmen in Oyo State have determined to tug out of the Affiliation of Native Authorities of Nigeria (ALGON) following the Supreme Courtroom’s judgment that granted monetary autonomy to native governments throughout the nation
The council chairmen, in a communique signed by all of the chairmen within the state as launched to newsmen by ALGON Public Relation Officer Ibrahim Akintayo, unanimously declared their unalloyed help for Governor Seyi Makinde.
