LG Election: KWSG shift poll to next year as council tenures expires, Thursday

Date: 2020-11-25

The Kwara State Government has said the local government election can only be conduct realistically next year even as the tenures of the suspended council chairmen expires Thursday this week.

The State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Salam Jawondo dropped this hint during an exclusive telephone chat with National Pilot on the issue.

According to him, the local government election would be conducted next year after it has been accommodated in the 2021 budget estimates.

He said “The tenure of the incumbent local government officials will expire on the 26th, November, 2020. But as we can see, there are so many complications; we are battling with the issue of wage bill, Covid-19 and even the effect of the pandemic on the economy.

“So it is obvious that local government election cannot come up this year…. it will come up next year. For now, it is not even in the budget original and revised budgets for this year but it is being accommodated in the 2021 revised estimates”, he noted.

Asked what the state will do in the interim to avoid a vacuum in council administration after the expiration of the tenure of the suspended chairmen, the AG said “When we get to the bridge, we will cross it. Let 26th November. 2020 comes and we will see what to do. But we know that since the elected people have been suspended, the council has been running well”.

He added that government dissolution of the Kwara State Independent Electoral Commission (KWSIEC) which the industrial court in Akure upturned but which is now in appeal is “another constitutional issue that has to be trashed out”.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Wahab Abayawo     Oyeyemi Olasumbo Florence     Haashim Initiative For Community Advancement     Baboko Primary School     Ezekiel Yissa Benjamin     UITH     Zulu Gambari     Ijagbo     Igbaja     Ola Falade     Kayode Zubair     Muhammed Abdullahi     Prince Bola Ajibola     Erin-ile     Kayode Ogunlowo     CUTI     Akande Idowu Ayoola Muhammed     General Hospital     Saliu Tunde Bello     FOMWAN     Sunday Popo-Ola     Towobola Abdulrahman Toyin     Ubandoma Of Ilorin     2017 Budget     Segun Adeniyi     Oba-Solagberu     Halimat Yusuf     Kwara State Council Of Chiefs     Ronke Adeyemi     Yusuf Aiyedun     Yakub Ali-Agan     Farouk Salim     Harrison Osauwagboe     JAAC     Nigeria Customs Service     Ilorin Talaka Parapo     Ayo Adeyemi     Senate President     Isiaka Rafiu Mope     Bukola Ajikobi     Nigerian Supreme Council For Islamic Affairs     Abdulsalam A. Yusuf     SSA Youth Engagement     Akorede     Isau     A.E. Afolabi     Olomu Of Omu-Aran     John Kehinde Salako     Suleiman Idris     Abdulfatai Salman Baakini     Moses Rahman Popoola     Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa     Mohammed Jimoh Faworaja     Abdulrahman Iliasu     Quareeb     AbdulRauf Keji     Oniwasi Agbaye     Usman Rifun     Onikijipa     Saka Isau     Kola Adesina     Ramadhan     Umar Saro     Balogun-Ojomu     Isaac Gbenle     Siraj Oyewale     Kwara State Infrastructure Development Fund     Kwara State Geographic Information Service     Abdulhakeem Adelaja Amao     Ope Saraki     Shehu Adaramaja     Olaiya Lawal     Jide Ashonibare     Kwara Metro Park     Kulende-UITH     Hassanat Bello     Tunde Akanbi    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

ER-KANG     Haleeman Salman     ANCOPPS     Playing Host     Yahya Mohammed     Abdulwahab Oba     Okiki     SWAN     Ola Falade     Amoyo     Sola Saraki Educational Foundation     Khadijat Ayoola Yusuf     Gbemi Saraki     BIR     Goodluck Jonathan     Government House     Gbadeyan Gbadura Yomi     Ahmed     Ibrahim Abdullahi     Solomon Edoja     Arca Santa     Kisra     Amuda Aluko     Kwara Restoration Project     AbdulFatai Adeniyi Dan-Kazeem     Abubakar Baba Sulaiman     Toyosi Thomas     Ilorin Anchor Men And Women     Ubandoma Of Ilorin     Oladipo Akanmu Tolani     United Nigeria Congress Party     Musa Aibinu     Kwara University Of Education     Onilupeju Of Ilupeju     Baba Issa Awoye     Tunde Oyawoye     Ajibola Ademola Julius     Arinola Fatimoh Lawal     Garba Dogo     Asiwaju Bola Tinubu     Ilorin International Airport     Olumide Daniel Ibitoye     Shagari     Valsolar     Shoprite     Abdulrahman Abdulrasak     Kwara State Television     Ayegbeni     Onilorin     Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq     PAACO-PCL Consortium     Sulyman Tejidini     Ahman Pategi University     Wahab Agbaje     Abubakar Atiku     Ophthalmological Society Of Nigeria     Salmon Babatunde Salmon     Elewu     Muslim Cementary     Ahmed \'Lateef     Muhammed Danjuma     Jimba Babatunde     Hassan Oyeleke     Muhammad Yahya     Age AbdulKareem     Moses Adekanye     Raimi Iyanda     Eleyele     Kwara     Dunmade     Soffiyyallah Kamaldeen     Mohammed Alabi Lawal     Oke-Kura     Mohammed Jimoh Faworaja     Saliu Mustapha     Hamza Usman     Bello Oyedepo