{"id":92904,"date":"2023-07-27T08:39:30","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T07:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/lp-guber-candidate-achonu-knocks-imo-govt-over-timing-of-lg-polls"},"modified":"2023-07-27T11:09:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T10:09:00","slug":"lp-guber-candidate-achonu-knocks-imo-govt-over-timing-of-lg-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/lp-guber-candidate-achonu-knocks-imo-govt-over-timing-of-lg-polls","title":{"rendered":"LP guber candidate, Achonu knocks Imo govt over timing of LG polls"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Sen. Athan Achonu, the Labour Party candidate in the November 11 governorship election in Imo State, has faulted plans by the State government to conduct council polls a few months before the guber election.<\/p>\n

Achonu made his stance known while addressing newsmen in Owerri, on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

DAILY POST reported that the Imo Governor, Sen. Hope Uzodimma had in a meeting with leaders of the All Progressives Congress last April, promised to conduct local government elections not later than July 2023.<\/p>\n

The timetable for the elections has, however, not been announced, four days to the end of July.<\/p>\n

Achonu, represented by the Director-General of his campaign organization, Mr Chime Nzeribe, argued that council polls should be conducted by governors upon their assumption of office rather than months to a governorship election.<\/p>\n

He decried the delay in the conduct of the council polls, describing it as a \u201cbetrayal of the real motive\u201d behind the election.<\/p>\n

According to him, the timing of local government elections should reflect, not a desperate desire to groom supporters at the grassroots level for the ruling party, but a sincere desire to empower the local governments and make them work in the interest of the masses.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are at a loss why a government that has almost exhausted its constitutionally guaranteed four years in office, has woken up on the eve of its exit, to perform a very crucial task it bluntly ignored when it had all the time in the world to do so.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe choice of this seemingly odd hour to conduct local government elections underscores the fact that it\u2019s being motivated by re-election desperation, and not the collective welfare and well-being of the Imo electorate, especially the millions of rural dwellers.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs your governor, I will conduct local council elections upon assumption of office and not weeks to the next election as seen today.<\/p>\n

\u201cLocal government autonomy will solve some of our problems ranging from insecurity to grassroots development, youth empowerment, among others,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He urged Imo people to keep faith with his \u2018Take-Back-Imo\u2018 agenda.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Nigeria. Sen. Athan Achonu, the Labour Party candidate in the November 11 governorship election in Imo State, has faulted plans by the State government to conduct council polls a few months before the guber election. Achonu made his stance known while addressing newsmen in Owerri, on Wednesday. DAILY POST reported that the Imo […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":92903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[10914,1570,2140,1018,3634,254],"class_list":["post-92904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-achonu","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-imo","tag-labour-party","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"\nLP guber candidate, Achonu knocks Imo govt over timing of LG polls - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Sen. 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