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ALGON 45th NEC Meeting: Disquiet As Abdullahi Maje Makes Surprise Return To ALGON

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Pledges Support To National President

…Says IMC Is Dead And ALGON Now A One United Family

The 45th National Executive Council meeting of the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON) has ended in Abuja the nations capital.

The meeting venue was agog when one Abdullahi Maje the former Chairman of Suleja local government and Chairman of the proscribed IMC made entry to the venue while meeting was in progress.

Members and other stakeholders at the venue were thrown into pandemonium for few minutes his presence was announce by the ALGON National President.

Alabi noted that a guest in the person of Hon. Maje was in their midst.

It was a mix bag as sights were transfixed with recetion and sounds dropped to slight-pin-drop-silence; during the pause for his introduction. The situation later gave way to maze and disquiet amongst members.

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Hon. Maje was hailed and allowed to have the floor for few minutes.

He rose to greet the Association and praised them for the commitment in the drive for grassroots-centric governance noting through his brief remark that he was formerly championing the proscribed Interim Management Commitment (IMC) of ALGON in a misunderstood manner but said the idea is dead.

He said that having left office way back a year ago and having come to terms with realities on ground, it was incumbent on him to jettison the ill-concieved faction.

Hon. Maje described ALGON as one family and said that he was happy to reunite with them.

Abdullahi Maje the former Chairman of Suleja local government and Chairman of the proscribed IMC
Hon. Abdullahi Maje, former Chairman of Suleja Local Government and Chairman of the proscribed IMC speaking at the NEC Meeting

Rising to commend his strength of character and profound resolve to let go the past, the Chairman of Jigawa Local Governments Alhaji Bala Usman Chamo Chairman Dutse LGA said he was very happy to see his good friends, Maje to have reunited to their fold. This according to him demonstrates love and strength of character by Maje to finally identify with the family, he pointed that ALGON is one.

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Also, the outgoing NEC representative of Bauchi Hon. Yusuf Garba expressed happiness to have seen his personal friend Hon Maje in their midst. He said that peace and togetherness was necessary to move the grassroots government forward in the interest of millions of people residing in the Councils.

The meeting which was the last in the year 2023 saw a huge attendance of both principal officers, NEC, BOT, Management with impressive size at Abuja Continental Hotel.

Top of it’s resolution was hinged on Global acceptance in the decentralization of power to Local Governments which was a take home message from the ALGON National President who just returned from Brussels, Belgium meeting, captioned ‘Cities and Regions for international partnerships 2023 Forum’ with the theme: localizing global gateway, connecting intermediary Cities and investing together for more inclusive and Innovative Sustainable Cities and Regions.

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The Association’s decision making body used the meeting to announce it’s take off of advocacy for strengthening the local government through campaign for conduct of elections against the backdrop of use of caretakers to divert the Councils funds.

ALGON expressed it’s resolve to unite under one roof to fight for the democratization of local governance leveraging on the huge information and strategies for attracting direct investment to the Councils at the disposal of the National President having traversed continents of the Africa, Ashia, Europe and America with issues of rural development taking the front stage as well as and devolution of power to the sub-nationals and amongst other key issues of national interests.

The meeting ended around 12:46am.

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