It was reliably gathered that each of the 21 councils will have three Senior Special Assistants that will run the affairs of the councils.
According to source, each of the councils will have Senior Special Assistant 1 that will serve as Chairman, Senior Special Assistant 2 will serve as Vice Chairman while Senior Special Assistant 3 will serve as Secretary of the local government council.
According to NIGERIANPOST, ” The governor is not dispose will the Director of local governments in various councils as he plan to conduct councils election.
“Those he will appoint specially SSA1 will definitely be the party candidate during the local government councils election
“The fear of the governor is that some of the DLGs are very close to members of the opposition parties in the state. If the governor decide to use the DLGs for the local government council election, APC may find it difficult to will all the councils. “But with SSAs as the helm of affairs at various councils they will make sure APC win the councils election. “Names of those to be appointed has been compiled by leaders from various councils and any moment from now the governor will announce their names,” the source said. It was further gathered that local government councils election may now hold by early May. Governor Bello is expected to swear-in Mamman Nda Eri as the new Chairman of Kogi State Independent National Electoral Commission (SIEC) and other members of the Commission this week at Lugard House Lokoja