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It has been observed that a recurring issue since the inception of local government administration in Nigeria has been the recalcitrant behavior of governors in their unconstitutional removal of democratically elected local government chairmen, whose offices are guaranteed under section 7 of the 1999 Constitution of Federal Republic Nigeria, which provides for the existence of the local government as the third tier of government. Thus, in these writers’ opinion, this section has been misinterpreted and rather taken to the very extreme by state governors who see local governments as mere appendages of the state government and subject to the whims and caprices of the governor. As a result, there have been a ferocious control of the local government in areas of funding and administration. This has led to widespread agitations for a more independent third tier of government. The most recent being the local government autonomy bill which aims at increasing the financial autonomy of the local government through the creation and maintenance of a special local government account into which all allocations shall be paid, as well as a separate savings account which would serve as a reserve, before subsequent disbursement to other tiers of government.