There is a new trend in local governance in Nigeria. State governments are recently creating local council development areas (LCDAs), with Lagos setting the pace in 2003. Though, initially contentious but has come to stay, after a court ruling by the Supreme court in favour of Lagos state. Judgement declared the LCDAs inchoate, until the consequent listing in the constitution by the national assembly.
This is 14 years after and yet no consequent listing by the national assembly. But the LCDAs are been run smoothly in Lagos state, with other state copying their model.
So how then do this LCDAs differ from LGAs.
LCDA are not recognised and listed in the 1999 Constitution. Rather, they are created by various state governments for administrative convenience and pursuit of developmental objectives. They are often perceived at some quarters as objects of partisan politics of the state governments that created them.
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