Gbajabiamila Says National Assembly Won’t Interfere In Agitation For LG autonomy

• Gbajabiamila expressed confidence that at the end of the training, the councilors would have received a lot of education on leadership.

The Speaker of House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has stated that the issue of local government autonomy was not for the National Assembly to address.

Gbajabiamila said this during a two-day leadership capacity training, organized by the Minority Leader of the House, Mr Ndudi Elumelu, forward councilors from Delta State, on Monday, in Abuja.

He said that since the process of constitutional amendment was ongoing and the areas of possible amendments thrown open, it was for Nigerians to decide whether to have local government autonomy or not.

“We did it the last time but when we went back to the states, we could not get the required two-thirds. So it is a process and we have followed the process.

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“While we were working on constitutional amendment, two-thirds of the states did not agree with us. So it is certain that it is the people that will decide whether they want autonomy for local government or not,” he said.

The speaker, however, said that as responsible lawmakers in the Ninth Assembly, they would continue to do all that was in the overall interest of Nigerians.

He stated that while some people were born leaders, others acquired leadership skills, adding, however, that either way, there was the need to go through training to be able to garner necessary experience.

The speaker urged participants to put the leadership qualities they might have acquired from the training to use to maximize their potentials.