The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Bola Tinubu to stop paying federal allocations to states that have failed to conduct credible local government elections.
The civil society organization made the appeal in an open letter signed by its deputy director, Kolawole Oluwadare.
SERAP asked President Tinubu to instruct the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy to withhold the allocations to ensure that funds from the Federation Account are paid only to democratically elected local government councils and no other body or institution.
It urged the President to provide details of the number of local government councils that have directly received federal allocations and whether the councils are democratically elected, as provided for by the 1999 Constitution.
The CSO maintained that the federal government must enforce the Constitution and prevent public wrongs, including those perpetrated by public office holders.