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The Nigeria Union of Local Government empolyees (NUGLE) has said only Jigawa State is  implementing local government autonomy in the country. NUGLE said Jigawa is the only state paying local government allocations directly into their accounts. Presidnt of the NUGLE, Comrade Ambali Olatunji said during a pree conference to restate the call for local government autonomy in the country following the comments made by president Muhammadu Buhari on the relationship between state and local government in interview with the Channels Television. Olatunji accused state governors of pauparising th local governments, while accusing them of destroying local goverment system in Nigeria. "it is only one state in Nigeria that has demostrate implementation in good spirit of the costitution; that is Jigawa government and wesay boldly ,having received the report from jigawa branch of our union that the governor of thestate has demostrated the tenets of a democrat in releasing the allocation of local governments to them directly;