Last month the newly elected Imo State Governor in a public speech blunder sacked all the 27 elected local government chairmen in the state, this is dictatorship. In a democracy, how can one man be the chief executive, the court, the Judge, and the parliament? Common sense detects that one can only sacked his or her employees, even within the law. How can an elected governor, a chief executive of state fire other elected chief executives of another tier of the government that were duly elected? Perhaps, the Governor erroneously thinks that the President can wake up one morning and sack all the 36 state governors, why not if he the governor can sack all the 27 duly elected local government chairmen; what a shame and idiosyncrasy of a Governor that was elected to correct the lawlessness in his state. Where did the Governor receive his political science class? And this brings to question the Governor’s understanding of the law. The Governor cannot illegally legalize the state. It will be difficult for the Governor to govern if his is lawless.
Hopefully the new Imo Governor will learn from the court’s decisions in Ekiti state and reinstate the twenty seven local government chairmen he illegally dismissed. In true democracies the governor’s action amounts to subversion of the federal constitution that established the local government authority as another tier of the government.
Ben ojiakulo
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