Kogi Plans LG Caretaker Committees

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The Governor of Kogi State, Captain Idris Wada, may have already finalised plans to constitute a local government caretaker committee contrary to the provisions of the constitution.

This, according to sources may take effect from Monday or Tuesday. This followed the post-mortem done by the governor and his aides on why the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lost the presidential and National Assembly elections to the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC).

Sources who were at the meeting disclosed to The Nation on Sunday that one of the reasons suggested for the party’s failure was the voiding of the May 2013 local government election by a Kogi State High Court sitting in Koton Karfe. The APC took the State Independent Electoral Commission (KOSIEC) to court on the ground that it was not properly constituted. In December 2014, the court ruled that the electoral body was indeed not properly constituted, and its actions could not stand.

The governor was said to have been chided for his timidity in fighting to sustain the illegality in the local governments and using the third tier effectively to fight the PDP’s political battles. The High Court ruling had voided not only the election, it also directed the government to ensure the affairs of the local government were transferred in the interim to the most senior directors in each local government. The directors did not yield to government use during the March 28 and April 11 polls.

Sources also told The Nation that the governor and his aides are worried that if something was not immediately done about the local governments, the governorship election sometime in October could go the way of the presidential and National Assembly votes.

To forestall this from happening, the governor is planning to appoint caretaker committees in all the 20 local government areas despite knowing full well that the Federal Court of Appeal had declared it unconstitutional.

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