Military rule and corruption by politicians are responsible for the backwardness of our local government system, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, has said.
He said this on Tuesday when he played host to the leadership of National Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.
In a statement by his media aide, Kehinde Akinyemi, the former president said the survival of the current state of local government administration in the country “is in the hand of God.”
He said the situation in local government areas has worsened to the extent that they can not afford graders to make their roads motorable, which is one of their basic functions.
He said the 1976 local government reform has been degraded by the states’ executives.
The NULGE national president, Comrade Akeem Olatunji Ambali, asked Obasanjo to intervene to stop the planned delisting of local government from the 1999 constitution by the National Assembly, which he said was an attempt to kill local government administration in the country.
