Oyo state house of assembly on today approved the extension of tenure of the 54 caretaker chairmen of local government areas and local council development areas in Oyo state for four months
The decision was taken at the plenary following its consideration of Governor Abiola Ajimobi’s request for tenure renewal of the chairmen.
The request letter as read by Speaker, Honourable Micheal Adeyemo, premised the tenure extension on the adjournment till October 17, 2017 of judgement in the litigation challenging the creation of 35 Local Council Development Areas in the state.
Speaking, Adeyemo said the Assembly granted the tenure extension request to prevent void in the chairmanship of local government areas with their tenure originally billed to expire on Friday, July 7.
He added that the Assembly still waited on the executive arm to forward to it Chairmanship nominees for the disputed Lagelu West, Asabari and Irepo councils.
Similarly, the Assembly has commissioned its committee on Local Government and Chieftaincy Matters to look into the distribution of funds to the 33 local government areas by the State Joint Account Allocation Committee (JAAC) overtime.
