LG Autonomy: Your Statement Shows You Are Selfish, Clueless, Anti-People

LG Autonomy: Your Statement Shows You Are Selfish, Clueless, Anti-People – Oyo APC Slams Makinde

Reported by Ayooluwa Afolabi

The Oyo state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has berated Governor Seyi Makinde for condemning the Supreme Court’s judgment on local government autonomy.

Recall that Makinde, while reacting to the verdict of the court, had stated that the country should be focused on what matters, adding that granting local government financial autonomy is a mere distraction.

According to Naija News, speaking via a statement, the Oyo APC Publicity Secretary, Olawale Sadare, advised the governor to desist from actions and utterances capable of portraying the state in a bad light.

The opposition insisted that Makinde’s submission has shown that he is selfish, clueless, and anti-people.

The statement read in part, “Governor Makinde’s outburst in a video which went viral at the weekend gave him out as selfish, clueless and anti-people since the same judgment he was protesting had received the wide applause of the generality of the people across the country and even beyond.

“As a matter of fact, the latest judgment has consolidated the verdict of the same Apex Court which had found Gov. Makinde guilty as charged in Ajuwon & Ors vs Governor of Oyo state (2021) otherwise known as the Oyo ALGON case).

“He (Makinde) was dragged to court over a breach of the constitution as it concerned local government administration and the court found him guilty.

“Governor Makinde did not, at any time, hide his opposition to the popular campaign for local government autonomy because he is Chief among the current state governors who feed fat on the financial resources of the third tier of government in the name of Joint Account arrangement.

Allocations and Internally Generated Revenue of the 33 LGAs in Oyo state running into trillions of naira since May 2019 cannot be accounted for.

After payment of workers’ salaries, Gov. Makinde would be the one to dictate what to do with the balance and this has been the case for about 61 months.

“Sad enough, many people were stunned when Gov. Makinde described the Apex Court’s verdict as a distraction even as he heaped the blame of hunger and anger in the land on the Tinubu administration.

“The question on the lips of the discerning minds now is; “why blame lack of productivity and food crisis on a 13 months-old Tinubu administration when you who have been in power for over 61 months cannot lay claim to any visible achievement in agriculture and other key sectors of the economy?”