Fashola swears in 57 Executive Secretaries for Lagos councils

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), on Monday swore in 57 Executive Secretaries expected to head the administration of the 20 Local Governments and 37 Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) in the state.

Fashola presided over the ceremony held at the Adeyemi Bero Auditorium in Alausa and witnessed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) gubernatorial candidate in the state, Akinwunmi Ambode, families of the new appointees as well as chieftains and supporters of the party.

The governor explained that the state could not conduct elections to replace the elected chairmen whose tenure expired in October last year, due to the inability of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to complete the process of compiling voters’ register on schedule.

He said, “While it is true that it is the State Independent Electoral Commission that has the responsibility for conducting this election, what may not be obvious to the public is that the register used for the election, are those compiled by INEC, because compilation of voters registration is a federal responsibility that is carried out through INEC and by the time the tenure of the last local government chairmen and elected councilors expired, all of us are aware that INEC was still conducting update of voters registration and that record is still yet to be completed.

“This has made it difficult to issue election notices, but I have found it necessary to continue the delivery of service at the local government level and this is why I have decided to inaugurate the executive secretaries, who will serve in a transitional capacity to the end of March, hoping that by then all will have been sorted out with the voters register, and then we go to the elections to elect officers into all levels in the local government structure.”

The governor also noted that the appointment of the Executive Secretaries was not an electoral process, but the exercise of his prerogative as provided by the constitution to prevent vacuum in the grassroots governance.
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