The House of Representatives, on Wednesday, passed for a second reading a bill seeking to recognise the 37 Local Development Area Councils of Lagos State as full-fledged Local Government Areas.
If this proposal scales the legislative hurdle, Lagos, which currently has 20 LGs, will now have 57 LGs, pushing the total number of LGs in the country from 774 to 811.
The 37 Lagos LCDAs were created by President Bola Tinubu when he was the Lagos State governor between 1999 and 2007.
The creation of the LCDAs brought Tinubu into a confrontation with then-President Olusegun Obasanjo, who then seized Lagos State’s federal allocations.
The bill seeking the conversion of the 37 LCDAs to full-fledged LGs was jointly sponsored by the member representing Ikeja Federal Constituency, Lagos State, Abiodun Faleke, and 21 other lawmakers.
