{"id":59304,"date":"2025-01-09T17:24:48","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T17:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=59304"},"modified":"2025-01-09T17:24:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T17:24:48","slug":"court-halts-federal-allocations-to-lgas-without-elected-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/09\/court-halts-federal-allocations-to-lgas-without-elected-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Halts Federal Allocations to LGAs Without Elected Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Alexis Uchendu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a landmark ruling, the Federal High Court has ordered the Federal Government to withhold allocations from Local Government Areas (LGAs), governed by unelected officials.<\/p>\n<p>The decision reinforces the constitutional mandate requiring states to ensure democratically elected councils at the local level.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling directly challenges the widespread practice of state governors appointing caretaker committees or administrators instead of conducting elections.<\/p>\n<p>It underscores the principles of accountability, transparency, and constitutional governance in local administration.<\/p>\n<p>This judgment is expected to force non-compliant states to hold LGA elections or risk losing federal funding, marking a significant shift in the fight against executive overreach at the state level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Alexis Uchendu In a landmark ruling, the Federal High Court has ordered the Federal Government to withhold allocations from Local Government Areas (LGAs), governed by unelected officials. The decision reinforces the constitutional mandate requiring states to ensure democratically elected councils at the local level. The ruling directly challenges the widespread practice of state governors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":59305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1386,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-judiciary","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59306,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59304\/revisions\/59306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}