Share To ensure that the dividends of democracy trickle down to Nigerians at the grassroots level, former President Goodluck Jonathan has called on the National Assembly to make laws that would make Local Government Councils strong, autonomous and have powers to generate revenue. He said that if he were a member of the National Assembly, he would mobilize member to amend sections in the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria that would totally prohibit the appointment of Local Government Chairman and give the people at the grassroots level to decide who leads them through the election. Jonathan stated this when the national and state executives of the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) paid him a courtesy visit in his country home, Otuoke, to ask for his support to stop a bill seeking to delist the Local Government structure from the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.