The incumbent council chairmen and councillors were sworn in on July 26, 2021, after the All Progressives Congress won all the seats during the local government election that year.
The Supreme Court had granted financial autonomy to local government councils, declaring that it was unconstitutional for state governors to hold funds allocated to the councils.
In the judgment delivered by Justice Emmanuel Agim, the seven-man panel held that the 774 local government councils should manage their funds themselves.
The court further declared that a state government had no power to appoint a caretaker committee and that a local government council was only recognisable with a democratically elected government.
In Ogun State, opposition party members criticised the state government for failing to implement measures to ensure a democratic transition, as required by law, three months before the current local government administrators’ terms expire.