ONWUASOANYA FCC JONES
I expect all elected councillors and chairmen to keep reporting to their offices and continue carrying out their official duties till a legitimate order stating otherwise is made. This order can either come from the governor, though subject to a legal challenge, or the courts.
I do not need to be a lawyer to know that the legislature does not have the powers to implement orders nor does it have the rights to issue orders. Elementary studies in government and political science would teach you that on ‘Separation of Powers’.
If the Constitution envisaged a situation where an overzealous gang of political neophytes, pretending to be legislators would wake up one day and suspend or sack a duly elected executive at another tier of government, then it wouldn’t have bothered creating a legislative arm at the LGA level. The Constitution would have also given the National Assembly the same powers to wake one day and sack elected governors without as much as allowing them the opportunity of fair hearing.
Some people may argue that the House of Assembly had sent invitation letters to the LGA chairmen which they allegedly neglected. The truth of the matter is that there are official channels of communication, and it is only because we elect neophytes into government positions that House of assembly members could stand up to claim that they invited these LGA chairmen when there is no evidence that there were letters dispatched by the clerk of the house to each of the LGA chairmen, asking them to appear before the house.
The Chinedu Offor led House of Assembly is obviously in a haste to buy themselves into the new government by promoting the most nauseating legislative arrogance and political brigandage. That house must fall and not a single one of those involved in this present harakiri are mentally qualified to be considered for any political engagement in the future by any leader who means well for his people.
This set of bland rabble-rousers are mere canon fodders who look to wherever food is ready and anyone who has food, should be careful in serving them, because they will most likely eat him, when he falls short of food supply.
At this moment, there has not been a communication from the governor, either by himself or through the Secretary to the State Government, suspending the chairmen or councillors, and it would amount to abdication of responsibilities should these elected LGA officials stop performing their responsibilities to the people who elected them.
The truth of the matter is that most of these elected LGA officials, especially, the chairmen are not my friends. In fact, I don’t like most of them, but I will stand with them as a group throughout this period. This is rather as a patriotic duty than a partisan political duty. If we continue to condone a situation where any new governor could wake up from the wrong side of his bed and decide to send elected LGA officials packing, then, we may soon get to a point, where a President will wake up one day and declare a State of emergency, suspending all elected authorities, after all, there is such a provision in the Constitution. We must observe the highest level of forbearance in the exercise of even, legitimate powers.
I do not expect Governor Emeka Ihedioha to implement the rash recommendations of this rascally house, but if he does, I shall support every single effort to resist this gradual descent into the most ignominious tyranny.
IMO MUST MOVE FORWARD!
