NULGE warns parties against fielding Presidential candidates who oppose LG autonomy
The Nigeria Union of Local Government Employee (NULGE) has warned the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who are set for their party primaries, not to pick anyone who is opposed to local government autonomy as their presidential candidate.
President of NULGE, Akeem Ambali, charged the political parties not to give their tickets to political aspirants who openly opposed local government autonomy, noting that such candidates will bring bad luck to their political parties in 2023.
The NULGE president made this assertion against some aspirants who held sway in their states, but pilfer and plunder local government allocation during their tenure, noting that such was the only selfish reason they openly oppose passage of Local Government Autonomy Bills.
He said, “We are warning 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 pilfer and plunder Local Government Allocation during their tenure, which is the only selfish reason they openly oppose passage of Local Government Autonomy bill, are now jostling to become the president of Nigeria.”
NULGE submitted that such leaders are not only unpatriotic but they are also anti-people hence, Nigerians must not allow them to be victorious by voting them out of office.
Ambali said, “if the myriads of problems confronting Nigeria like insecurity, poverty, joblessness, infrastructural decay, women and youth Empowerment, Agriculture and Rural Economy are to be addressed, and if security and overall development in all sectors of, the economy must be achieved, Local Government Autonomy is the only way to go. Hence Nigeria need a fortright and progressive leader not a pretender to do this.”