The foremost South West socio-cultural organization, Afenifere, has condemned the National Independent Local Government Electoral Commission (NILGEC) bill.
Afenifere said the NILGEC bill if passed would usurp the tenets of federalism on which Nigeria is built.
The Yoruba socio-cultural group stated this in a communique issued by its Deputy Leader and National Publicity Secretary, Oba Oladipo Olaitan and Justice Faloye respectively.
Afenifere’s communique comes after its monthly meeting held at Isanya Ogbo Ogun State, the residence of its Leader, Pa Ayo Adebanjo.
The group argued that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has yet to conduct a free and fair election in Nigeria, stating that creating a federal agency to conduct local government elections would be a multiplication of INEC’s inefficiency across the 774 local government areas.
Afenifere accused President Bola Tinubu’s administration of planning to lead Nigeria into unitarianism.
“The idea of a federal agency to conduct local government elections is a veritable weapon in furtherance of the undisguised policy of complete capture and absolute unitarianism of the Nigerian Federation by the Central Government, a policy that has attained its crescendo under the present administration.
“The Federal Government and its INEC have proven not better at conducting the limited elections with which they are saddled by the Constitution,” Daily Post quoted the statement, on Monday
