Reject presidential aspirants opposing LG autonomy, NULGE tells PDP, APC

The Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) has urged the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to vote out any presidential aspirant that opposed local government autonomy.

President of NULGE, Comrade Akeem Ambali, at a press briefing in Abuja yesterday, said some presidential aspirants, while governing their respective states, plundered local government allocations and frustrated the passage of local government autonomy bills in their state assemblies.

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He said, “We, in the NULGE, use this medium to warn political parties going into their primaries not to give their tickets to political aspirants who openly oppose local government autonomy as such candidates will bring bad luck to their political parties at the polls come 2023.

“It is regrettable that those who held sway in their states but pilfered and plundered local government allocations during their tenure, which is the only selfish reason they openly oppose passage of local government autonomy bills, are now jostling to become the President of Nigeria.”

He stressed that such leaders were not only unpatriotic but also anti-people, hence that Nigerians must not allow them to be victorious.