Ibekimi Oriamaja Reports
Local government chairmen from across the country have applauded All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his running mate, Senator Kashim Shettima, for establishing a local government directorate in the APC’s Presidential Campaign Council (PCC).
They called the deed historic and brilliant.
The creation of a local government directorate under the PCC was lauded by council leaders.
The APC PCC list included local government directorate among other directorates with the inclusion of local governments’ practitioners as director, deputy director and secretary.
The Chairman of Bariga Local Council Development Area in Lagos State, Kolade David Alabi, was named director, his counterparts at Lafia Local Government, Nasarawa State and Dutse Local Government, Jigawa State, Aminu Muazu Maitafa and Bala Usman Chamo were appointed as deputy director and secretary.
A statement by Alhaji Aliyu Usman from Gombe State and Bode Adetunji from Ekiti State, on behalf of other council chairmen, described APC as a party with good intention for local government administration.
The duo said: “In a communiqué issued at the end of the 32nd National Executive Council (NEC) Meeting of the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON), held on September 1 in Lokoja, Kogi State, it was stated that ‘with respect to the 2023 general election, ALGON will support and give its commitment to any presidential candidate that is committed to the actualisation of full local government autonomy.’”
The APC, they said, had displayed a commitment to their cause.
“No doubt, the ruling party has once again demonstrated its love and determination to ensure the growth of local government administration in the country.
“President Muhammadu Buhari has not concealed his desire to see that the local government administration in the country takes its true place through steps to make them fully independent since the beginning of his administration.”
“We are assuring the APC Presidential Campaign Council, led by President Buhari and the party’s standard-bearer, Asiwaju Tinubu, and Senator Shettima, of our determination to mobilize local governments across the country to guarantee the APC wins the presidential election,” the duo said.
