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Akeredolu goes to Court of Appeal to dissolve Ondo Councils
Governor Rotimi Akeredolu has approached the Court of Appeal to upturn a judgment of an Ondo State High Court barring the state government from dissolving local governments in the state.
The case is due for mention at the Appeal Court, sitting in Akure, the state capital, tomorrow.
The governor’s statement of appeal to the appellate court, served on the counsel to the 18 local government chairmen and councilors, Olusola Oke, was sighted by our correspondent yesterday in Akure.
The chairmen and councilors were elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, which lost the last governorship election to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state.
The Ondo State High Court had, on January 17, ruled on a suit filed by the 18 local government chairmen and councilors, led by their chairman, Mr. David Alarapon, Chairman of Akure South LGA.
It ruled that the state government, either by their agents or servants, had no right to remove the elected officials until their tenure lapsed.
Vanguard, February 26, 2017
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