Former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Olisa Agbakoba, has said that the 774 local governments and 36 state governors in the country are not doing anything.
Naijaonpoint reports that Agbakoba made the remark on Friday while fielding questions on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme.
According to Agbakoba, all government officials at the local and state levels do is go to Abuja and collect monthly stipends.
He urged Bola Tinubu to assign responsibility by devolving political authority to the other tiers of government, adding it is the only way people will benefit from the dividends of democracy.
He said, “I would always want any Nigerian president to succeed because the people who are going to benefit from a successful president are far too many.
“There are 250 million Nigerians hoping for a good government. So I can only wish that the President would do far more than he has done in trying to give Nigeria a sense of direction, a sense of development.
“The 774 local governments, the 36 state governors, don’t do anything. All they do is go to Abuja and collect a stipend every month.
“I want to see President Tinubu assign responsibility by devolving political authority to these other tiers of government so that development can come bottom up, not top down, and in that way, people will benefit from the dividends.”