The All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for Oyo South Senatorial District in the forthcoming general elections, Sharafadeen Alli, has said, the local government system is dead in Oyo State under Governor Seyi Makinde’s administration.
According to Alli, he claimed that governor Makinde deliberately suffocate local governments administration in the state for his gain, saying that they now only exist on paper.
The APC candidate spoke in Ibadan while featuring as a guest on a program organized by the Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Oyo State council
In his statement, the former Chief of Staff and Secretary to the Oyo State Government said Makinde’s LG chairmen cannot execute any project since being sworn in as executive chairman, because they rely solely on the governor’s approval before they can do anything.
The former Chairman of Ibadan North Local Government Area (LGA) said, “It is a known fact that local governments are dead in Oyo state. This has been admitted by the governor.
“We had local governments under (former governors Lam Adesina, Chief Rasidi Ladoja, Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala, and even Abiola Ajimobi and it has not been like this.
“Local government are just existing in number, they do not have any power to do anything.”
According to him, primary healthcare centers are also not functioning in the state, despite budgetary allocations.
Alli said: “People are now taking malaria to UCH. Something that should be treated at the primary healthcare centers, because local governments are not functioning.”
“The local government cannot do anything, as far as I am concerned, there is no local government in Oyo state, they are just existing on paper.”
“I will support local government autonomy when I get to the national assembly. I want to attract more federal presence to Oyo south senatorial district.
“All the senators that have represented the district have tried and I am going there to do better. I know what our people need. I live with our people and I know what they need”.
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