{"id":4992,"date":"2023-12-02T13:09:53","date_gmt":"2023-12-02T13:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/benue-ortom-hails-senates-stance-on-lg-councils\/"},"modified":"2023-12-02T13:09:53","modified_gmt":"2023-12-02T13:09:53","slug":"benue-ortom-hails-senates-stance-on-lg-councils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/benue-ortom-hails-senates-stance-on-lg-councils\/","title":{"rendered":"Benue: Ortom hails Senate\u2019s stance on LG councils"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The immediate past Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom has commended the Senate for a resolution reached on Friday regarding the dissolution of democratically elected local government councils in the State.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST reports that the Senate on Friday urged the Federal Government to halt statutory allocation to LG councils whose chief executives and councilors were not democratically elected.<\/p>\n<p>The resolution followed a motion sponsored by the Senator representing the Benue South, Senator Abah Moro, titled, \u201cUrgent Need to Halt the Erosion of Democracy: The Dissolution of Elected Councils in Benue State.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the development, Ortom in a statement issued on Saturday by his media aide, Terver Akase, described the intervention of the Senate as a significant move.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the move reflected a commitment to upholding democratic principles and ensuring the autonomy of local government administration across the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe says the unanimous resolution by the upper chamber of the National Assembly also represents a crucial step in safeguarding the democratic process at the grassroots level.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChief Ortom says the Senate\u2019s decision is a proactive measure which also has the potency to deter any act that undermines the democratic rights of citizens and the principles of good governance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy calling for the withholding of statutory allocations to non-democratically elected local government councils, the former Benue Governor states that the Senate has demonstrated a firm stance against dictatorial tendencies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe particularly commends Senator Abba Moro for his proactive motion which drew urgent attention to the issue of the unconstitutionally sacked local government councils in Benue State\u201d, the statement added.<\/p>\n<p>Benue: Ortom hails Senate\u2019s stance on LG councils<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The immediate past Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom has commended the Senate for a resolution reached on Friday regarding&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4173,15,5967],"tags":[1126,180,5968],"class_list":["post-4992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-benue","category-news","category-ortom","tag-benue","tag-news","tag-ortom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}