Pecohub The Anambra State Independent Electoral Commission (ANSIEC) has announced that local government elections in Anambra State will be held on 28 September.
This was disclosed in a circular signed by the Chairperson of the ANSIEC, Genevieve Osakwe, on Monday.
“The Anambra State Independent Electoral Commission wishes to inform all registered political parties and the general public that local government elections in the state will be held on Saturday, 28th September 2024,” she said in the circular.
The announcement was coming days after the Governor of State, Charles Soludo, inaugurated the ANSIEC to conduct the poll.
The inauguration of the electoral body was apparently in response to a recent Supreme Court ruling which affirmed the financial autonomy of Nigeria’s 774 local governments.
The apex court held that the local governments across the country should, henceforth, receive their allocations directly from the Accountant-General of the Federation.
The ruling empowers the federal government to withhold allocations of local governments being administered by a caretaker committee.
