Nigeria, April 25 -- A viable local governance that is facilitated by a functional local government system is the bedrock of democracy, Prof. Tunji Olaopa has declared.



Olaopa who is the Chairman of the Federal Civil Service Commission stated this position while delivering the ninth yearly lecture of the Binuyo Foundation at the Federal School of Surveying, Oyo, on Saturday, April 25, 2026.



The Professor of Public Administration who spoke on "Strengthening Local Governance as Framework for Nigeria's National Transformation" was nostalgic about how a functional local government system was instrumental to development at the grassroots level in the country up to the 1970s.



As he put it, "the

local government system is fundament...