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Aregbesola: There are only two tiers of govt
The Governor of Osun State, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has said that local governments are under absolutely control and ambience of states, and that the only organ of the state empowered by the constitution to make laws for them is the state assembly.
The governor equally stated that Nigeria’s diversity is beautiful if limited to cultural diversity and the beauty therein.
Aregbesola spoke during a courtesy visit and conferment of Nwannedinamba Ndigbo of Osun State and Ezinne Ndigbo on him and his wife by the Ohanaeze Ndigbo, in the state in partnership with the Association of Ndi Ezeigbo N’uzo Ije (Diaspora) and the South East Council of Traditional Rulers in Osogbo.
The governor described the belief ýgaining grounds that local governments should be independent of state governments as totally strange and anti-federalism.
The Nation December 4
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