Governor of Lagos state Akinwunmi Ambode recently fired all the Executive secretaries for the local government councils and in their place hired 57 sole administrators to handle the affairs of the councils pending the local government elections the date of which is currently unknown.
The move however has been slammed by the Lagos chapter of the PDP who are calling it a move by the APC to perpetuate power.
In a statement issued by PDP spokesman, Taofiq Gana, the Opposition Party said, “The sole administrators were appointed “to continue to occupy the councils in proxy for the APC, for another period not less than three months, instead of allowing the LASIEC (state electoral commission), to announce date for council polls,
“The PDP holds that the governor and the APC are jittery and unpopular of going into the grass roots elections in the state, thus the decisions to control the councils by nomenclature of executive secretaries and sole administrators, which are alien and offensive to the provisions of our Constitution, which under section 7 guarantees only democratically elected local government council administrations.”