The litigation on ‘local government autonomy’ by the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, at the Supreme Court is a frontal attack on federalism. The only federating units recognised by the 1999 Constitution (as amended) are the states. The local government areas are to be administered on the basis of laws promulgated by the respective state House of Assembly; albeit to be governed on democratic tenets.
The local…
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