The leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Osita Okechukwu, has criticized Anambra State Governor Charles Soludo for passing a law in the state House of Assembly to enhance access to local government funds.
Naija News reported that Mr Soludo last week argued that the Supreme Court’s judgment does not invalidate Article 7 of the 1999 Constitution.
Sordo said the law was enacted because he believed that giving full autonomy to the 774 municipalities would create “enormous chaos” and hinder sustainable development.
In an interview with Punch, former Executive Director of Voice of Nigeria, Mr Okechukwu, said it was wrong for Soludo to nullify the Supreme Court’s judgment on LG autonomy.
He also said it was pure robbery for legal and political advisers to ask Mr Sordo to circumvent the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on the fiscal autonomy of municipal councils.
Okechukwu added that governors who fail to abide by the Supreme Court’s judgment on LG autonomy will pay a heavy price.
He said, “Honestly, I think Governor Charles Soldo is just riding on a vanity train created by some political thieves in the corridors of power.” Vanity Constitution in the sense that it expressly ruled that any law derived from the Act violates Articles 1(1), (2), (3), 4(7), 5(2). )(a) and (b) and 3(b), 7(1) and (3) and 14(1), (2)(a) and (4) of the Interim Commission. It was advanced to prevent other oddities such as establishment and dissolution of elected representatives.
“I think we need more clarification about the word bandit. The usual dictionary meaning of the word ‘bandit’ refers to someone who gains an unfair and unfair advantage over another person. It is in this context that in my dissertation, our climate was classified as besieged by bandits of various colors. If legal and political advisors intentionally advised Governor Sordo to circumvent the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on the fiscal autonomy of local government councils, wouldn’t that be banditry, pure and simple? . The Supreme Court judgment has made clear the acts of banditry in the operation of local government councils. And I reiterate that governors who fail to readjust will pay a heavy price, if not by law, then by local voters. ”
