By Akinlabi Hassan For decades, the debate over Nigeria’s governance model has centered on a crucial question: how do we effectively bring development to our people? In theory, the third tier of government, the local government area (LGA), is designed, by default, to be the engine room for grassroots transformation. In practice, however, Nigeria’s 774 LGAs had largely been reduced to administrative ghosts, financially paralyzed and politically controlled by the state governors. As the struggle between grassroots development and local government autonomy intensified, the Tinubu administration had embarked on the road that...