By Olawale Ajimotokan in Abuja
The Vice chairmen of the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON) have threatened to sue Anambra State government over its refusal to conduct local government election in the past 13 years.
This decision was one of the resolutions adopted by the council vice chairmen, when its National Working Committee met at Chelsea Hotel, Abuja over the weekend.
They accused successive governments in Anambra of running local government administration in the past 13 years without democratically elected council chairmen.
The body likened the local government area caretaker committees installed by Governor Willie Obiano to a conduit pipe to siphon money.
The council vice chairmen were also critical of the unilateral powers wielded by some state governors to remove from office democratically local government council chairmen.
The chairman of the body, Hon Lawrence Onuchukwu, who read out the resolutions,…
