Ogun Assembly orders referendum in five proposed LCDAs

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NIGERIA: APPARENTLY due to controversy, the Ogun State House of Assembly has directed the State Independent Electoral Commission (OGSIEC) to conduct referendum in five of the 37 proposed Local Government Council Development Areas (LCDAs).

The order was given by the Speaker, Suraj Adekunbi, on Wednesday at the plenary session of the assembly.

Adekunbi urged the electoral umpire to conduct the exercise within two weeks at Abeokuta North East, with proposed headquarters at Ita-Iyalode; Sango/Ijoko with headquarters at Sango; Coker Ibogun, at Ibogun; Afon at Oloka Afon; and Ifesowapo at Imodi-Imosan.
Adekunbi further instructed the Transition Committee Chairmen of the affected Local Government Councils, whose authorities the LCDAs fall under, to forward a letter of resolution on the acceptance of the creation of the LCDAs to the Assembly after the exercise.

The Speaker hailed the people of the state for trooping out to be part of the public hearings on the creation of the LCDAs.

He explained that their presentations at the forum would assist the Assembly to give the best to the citizenry.

It would be recalled that the Assembly had a forth night ago organized a three-day stakeholders’ forum to harness the inputs of the citizenry on the creation of the  LCDAs to further bring governance nearer to the grassroots.

Amosun had early March this year sent the names of no fewer than 37 Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) to the Assembly for the approval of the lawmakers, to be added to the existing 20 local governments.

Amosun, in a letter, had asked the lawmakers for the legal power to create the LCDAs, the exercise which was first embarked upon by the late Chief Bisi Onabanjo of the Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN) administration in 1984 and Alliance for Democracy (AD) government of ex-Governor Olusegun Osoba in 2003.

While the military administration of the then Col. Oladipo Diya cancelled the additional local governments created by Onabanjo, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) government of ex-Governor Gbenga Daniel scrapped the councils added by Osoba administration on assumption of office in 2003.

The Speaker of assembly, Suraju Adekunbi, told his colleagues at the plenary then that he had received a letter from the governor in this respect.

Adekunbi explained that the request by Amosun was in furtherance of government’s attempt at meeting the yearnings of the people through the delivery of dividends of democracy close to them.
He said that the governor stated in the letter that the creation of the LCDAs would further bring government closer to the people and ultimately ensure further development.
“I forward herewith the list of the existing and new Local Council Development Areas totaling 57 in all for your kind consideration in this regards,” Amosun had said in the letter.

The LCDAs and their proposed headquarters are as follows:

Abeokuta North                                                            – Akomoje

Abeokuta North West                                                  – Lafenwa

Abeokuta North East                                                   – Ita Iyalode

Oke Ogun                                                                       – Imala

Abeokuta South                                                            – Ake

Abeokuta South East                                                   – Ijeun Titun

Abeokuta South West                                                  – Ijeja

Ado Odo/ Ota                                                                – Ota

Ado Odo                                                                          – Ado Odo

Agbara/Igbesa                                                               – Igbesa

Ota West                                                                         –Atan Ota

Sango/ Ijoko                                                                  – Sango

Ewekoro                                                                          –Itori

Ewekoro North                                                              – Wasinmi

Ifo                                                                                     – Ifo

Ifo Central                                                                      –Agbado

Coker Ibogun                                                                 – Ibogun

Ifo South                                                                          – Ojodu

Ijebu East                                                                        – Ogbere

Ijebu East Central                                                         – Ojowo

Ijebu North                                                                     – Ijebu Igbo

Ijebu North Central                                                       – Oru

Ijebu Igbo West                                                              – Ojowo

Ago Iwoye                                                                        – Ibipe

Ijebu North East                                                             – Atan

Yemoji                                                                              – Ilese

Ijebu Ode                                                                         – Ijebu Ode

Ijebu Ode South                                                             – Oke Aje

Ikenne                                                                              – Ikenne

Remo Central                                                                 – Iperu

Imeko                                                                               – Imeko

Afon                                                                                  – Oloka Afon

Ipokia                                                                               – Ipokia

Ipokia West                                                                     – Ijofin

Idi Iroko                                                                           – Idi Iroko

Obafemi/Owode                                                             – Owode

Oba                                                                                    – Oba

Obafemi                                                                            – Obafemi

Ofada/Mokoloki                                                             – Mowe

Odeda                                                                               – Odeda

Opeji                                                                                 – Opeji

Ilugun                                                                               – Ilugun

Odogbolu                                                                         – Odogbolu

Leguru                                                                              – Ala

Ifesowapo                                                                        – Imodi

Ogun Waterside                                                             – Abigi

Ogun Waterside East                                                    – Bolorunduro Efire

Remo North                                                                    – Isara

Remo North/East                                                          – Ode Remo

Sagamu Central                                                              – Sagamu

Sagamu Remo West                                                       – Makun

Sagamu Remo South                                                     – Sotubo

Yewa North                                                                     – Ayetoro

Iju                                                                                     – Iboro

Ketu                                                                                  – Tata

Yewa South                                                                     – Ilaro

Yewa South East                                                            – Oke Odan