A fresh dispute over local government funding in Oyo State has surfaced after popular social media commentator, Sir Lablu posted a video alleging that Ibadan North Local Government is effectively abandoned despite receiving about ₦3 billion every month.

In the post, he described the council as “another abandoned local government” in the state and asked who could explain the arithmetic of such a monthly allocation with nothing visible to show for it.

The video shows a man standing in front of a weathered building said to be the council’s premises, with images of Governor Seyi Makinde and another man superimposed above it. Sir Lablu also invited Nigerians to send pictures and videos of what he called abandoned local governments in their own areas, so that the world can see people collecting taxpayers’ money while residents are left to govern themselves.

The ₦3 billion figure is an allegation made in the post. Neither the Ibadan North Local Government nor the Oyo State government has publicly confirmed or disputed it, and no official statement on the claim had surfaced at the time of this report.

The post lands in the middle of an intensifying row over how the state’s 33 local governments are funded and run. Last week, former Minister of Power and Steel Wole Oyelese, who convenes the Oyo State Grassroots Financial Accountability Initiative, challenged Governor Makinde to publish a full breakdown of allocations due to each council since 2019, along with amounts actually received, deductions, the legal basis for any transfers, audited accounts and bank records.

He argued that the governor’s demand for accountability from the Federal Government over alleged unpaid funds should be matched by transparency over local government money.

Supporters of the governor have pushed back. The Oyo State Elite Group said financial scrutiny was necessary but that local government performance should also be judged by projects delivered or still under construction, some of which it said would be commissioned before the administration ends.

A former labour adviser to Makinde, Sikiru Bayo Titilola-Sodo, said councils nationwide have received their allocations directly into their own accounts since January 2026, but stressed that full local government autonomy has not yet been achieved because the Constitution still subjects them to oversight under Section 7.

The controversy carries added political weight because Makinde is the presidential candidate of the Allied Peoples’ Movement (APM) ahead of the 2027 elections, with opponents sharpening their attacks on his record at home.