The Attorney general of the Federation and Minister of Justice, LATEEF FAGBEMI has called for the scrapping of state Independent Electoral Commissions.

FAGBEMI made the call at the National Discourse on Nigeria’s Security Challenges and good governance at the local government level held in Abuja.

The Minister said in spite of the constitutional provisions that were meant to safeguard local governments’ autonomy, there have been cases of arbitrary dissolution, abolition or fragmentation of local governments by the higher tiers of government, particularly the State Governments.

He said the provision of the constitution on State Joint Local Government Account, which empowered the state Assemblies to decide the revenue to their local government facilitated state intrusion on local revenues.

He further explained that one of the persisting challenges of Nigeria’s federalism is the continual failure to grant autonomy to local government as the third tier of government.