ALGON IMC Debunks Purported Meeting By Ex-members

The Interim Management Committee of the Association of Local Government of Nigeria (ALGON) under the leadership of Hon Abdullahi Shuaibu Maje the executive chairman of Suleja Local Government Area council in collaboration with some Electoral Committee members has discredited plans of a purported NEC meeting in Kogi State.

Reacting to the recent turn out of events in a statement made available to newsmen by its head of Media Mr Farouk Salawu the IMC raised the alarm that the dissolved faction of the association is currently using ex-members to hijack the IMC and sellout the association.

The IMC is also distancing itself from activities stating contrary to the belief that a crisis existed in-house, it has rather upon the exit of some members, restructured itself, adding that it will herald a new leadership with effect from the aftermath of its election slated for mid-September 2022.

It said after the election, new leadership will emerge to effect a more idealistic realization of the mandate of the association.

The statement reads, “Our attention has been brought for the umpteenth time plans made by the Alabi-led faction to hijack the leadership of the IMC through some compromised members of the Interim Management Committee during a purported meeting in Lokoja, Kogi State.

“As against a publication notifying the general public of the two-day meeting, The IMC by right of this statement, condemn in all entirety the alleged meeting and hereby ask the public to disregard, because the said Alabi who is to chair and head the meeting of the executives and elected chairmen of the 774 Local Government Areas, is not even a chairman of any local government area, rather a chairman Bariga LCDA.

“It would be a great disservice to duly elected chairmen of local government areas if a man who isn’t a chairman take the mantle and make defining decisions for them.”

The IMC, however, commended President Muhammadu Buhari and the minister of Special Duties and Intergovernmental Affairs Gorge Akume, for approving full autonomy for the local government, saying the development would address the rising insecurity, poverty at the grassroots and spur effective and efficient local government administration.