Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun has said that the impeached Chairman of Ijebu East Local Government, Wale Adedayo should be ready to defend the false allegations levelled against him and his government. This is just as Abiodun stressed the need to instil party discipline within the All Progressives Congress (APC) to ensure that members of the party are accountable for …

In many states of the Federation, the story is the same: State governors treat Local Government Councils as appendages and not the independent third tier of government that the 1999 Constitution (as amended) proposes them to be. The three tiers of government in the awkward federal system that we operate are the federal, state and local government councils, each of …