The Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON) is to? meet with President Goodluck Jonathan and state governors to discuss the fate of local government administration, an official said.?
The National President of ALGON, Mr Nwabueze Okafor, made the statement in Abuja on Wednesday in his acceptance speech as the new leader of the group.
Nwabueze said that the inability of some states to conduct local government elections had continued to hider? local governments from performing their constitutional roles.
He said that the 774 local governments in Nigeria were supposed to be governed by duly elected officials? but many? were under the control of political appointees of state governors.
Nwabueze said ALGON had also concluded plans to send memoranda for the autonomy of? local governments to the National Assembly Constitution Committee to ensure their independence.
?He said that the association would consult the state legislatures to seek their support for? the?? total freedom of? the local governments.
Nwabueze took over from the Interim Management Committee (IMC) which was mandated by a court order to run the affairs of ALGON following a protracted struggle by aggrieved factions to control the affairs of the association.
The Chairman, Board of Trustees of ALGON, Alhaji Usman Ibrahim, who presided over the handing over ceremony, said the change of baton was carried out because the rift had been amicably resolved.