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The All Progressives Congress, APC, has commended the decision of the Supreme Court affirming the right of local government councils to receive their monthly allocations directly from the federation account. Justice Emmanuel Agim-led seven-man panel also upheld the position of the federal government that state governors lack authority under the law to arbitrarily dissolve democratically-elected local government councils and set up caretaker committees in their place as ubiquitously practised. The apex court had in its ruling on Thursday said it was an act of gross misconduct paying local gover…

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