LG autonomy: Senate will tinker with constitution for implementation

President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has said the Senate will tinker with the 1999 constitution to allow room for implementation of the Supreme Court judgement on local government autonomy.

Akpabio disclosed this on Thursday in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital, when he received some members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who were loyal to a former interim national secretary of the party, Senator John James Akpanudoedehe.

It would be recalled that the Supreme Court had granted autonomy to all the 774 LGAs in the country following a suit filed by the federal government against state governors.

A statement by Akpabio’s Special Assistant on Media, Jackson Udom, quoted the Senate President as saying, “I thank President Bola Tinubu, for looking for a way to bring the all needed autonomy to the local governments through the intervention of the Supreme Court.

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“The Senate, under my leadership will tinker with the constitution to ensure that the judgment is fully implemented without any loopholes for manipulation by the practitioners.”