One of the beauties of the current administration of Bola Tinubu is his push for the actualisation of the age-long demand for local government autonomy in the country. Although the Federal Government and State Governments have shifted the battle fields of the agitation to court, many Nigerians think this is the best time for the country’s local governments to be autonomous with a view to promoting fiscal federalism in Nigeria. They also maintained that the action of the current administration was salutary and indeed a worthwhile revolution to wake local government areas from deep slumber.
The Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), is going beyond rhetoric to justify why local governments should not remain at the reserved bench of administration in Nigeria. For instance while most Nigerians are unanimous in their opinions for the eventual phase out of the subjugation of local governments in the land, NULGE took a deep dive the constitutional, legal, economical and sociology reasons states should no longer be seen as the capoon of local government, which is the closest government to ordinary Nigerians. Comrade Ambali Akeem Olatunji, the National President of NULGE, in an exclusive interview with Daily Independent, thinks local governments are impoverished, and comparing resources therein with the state and federal government was no brainer.
The National President of NULGE, told Daily Independent how local government administration was regulat.
