By Oluwatope Lawanson
Yiaga Africa, an NGO, has called for a four-year tenure for elective positions in Local governments to ensure uniformity in terms of office at states and federal levels in Nigeria.
Cynthia Mbamalu, Director of Programmes, Yiaga Africa, made the call at an Advocacy Roundtable tagged: “Legislative Reforms for Enhancing Local Government Elections”, in Lagos on Tuesday.
“We want government to create a form of uniformity across every states to ensure local government elective positions would be for a four-year tenure like the president as well as governors.
“This will also ensure that state governors do not have the right to decide whether to hold elections or not.
“Aside Lagos State and few others that hold periodic local government elections, some states have not had elections for over 10 to 15 years.
“They’d rather have caretaker committees and no elected officials at the local government level which should not be encouraged,” she…
Source: News Agency of Nigeria
