Rotimi said, “Nigerians could get a sense of the thinking of Mr President, who of course the entire legal action must have been taken at his behest. He’s always been a Federalist, he’s always someone that has believed in the devolution of power, you know, in the spirit of subsidiarity to allow those that are closest to the people to take the lead in their development. The question had then been about whether it’s a two-tier system that we want to run or a three-tier system, whether the states are the ones supposed to be able to determine first of all the creation of local governments and how local governments are administered.”
When he was asked his thoughts that he and the 10th Assembly had about the judgement, the Reps spokesperson said, “Concerning the judgment, to be honest, I haven’t gotten a lead copy of the judgment to be able to study intoto and be able to comment on it authoritatively. But I must mention that the House of Representatives- the 10th assembly, has a legislative agenda, and that legislative agenda and part of the objectives that we have with the constitution review committee is actually supposed to ensure local government autonomy. As you know, in the 9th assembly and previous assemblies, there have been attempts to do that, but it didn’t quite work. So we, it’s part of the resolutions that we have.”
