By Chesa Chesa
Cross River State Governor, Prince Bassey Otu, yesterday said that the governors have taken the Supreme Court judgement that granted autonomy to the 774 local government areas in the country in good faith.
Speaking to State House correspondents after meeting with President Bola Tinubu, at the Presidential Villa Abuja, Senator Otu said that Nigerians should be happy with the judgement.
“Nigeria is a democratic country, and we know very well that President Tinubu and the Renewed Hope Agenda is a democratic one.
“And I believe that the judgment is taken in very good faith. All Nigerians should be happy about it. I don’t think anybody is against development in the local governments. I don’t think so”, he said.
The Governor also said that he was at the State House to discuss boundary issues with President Tinubu.
He said; “Actually, I came to meet with Mr. President about security and boundary issues in my state. And I believe that the meeting will still continue, because there are few things that will need some other officials to also participate.
“Cross River State boundaries is quite very big. You can drive about five to 600 kilometers along the boundary. And in between those boundaries, we just have about four military platforms, which I’m trying to tell Mr. President that we actually do need more and we do need some high level security more than what we have now and then some drones to also fly the area in order to make it safe.”
