Legal expert Tolu Babaleye has provided arguments for why the 33 Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) were established illegally and against the constitution by the Ondo State High Court in Akure.

Adegboyega Adebusoye, the sitting judge, declared that LCDAs were not legitimately established. It was signed by the former governor of Ondo State, Rotimi Akeredolu, nine months ago, the day he returned from a three-month medical leave. Babaleye stated shortly after the court's decision that the 33 Local Council Development Areas in the state were void since they were signed outside of the state and that the court ruled that the construction of the LCDAs was unlawful.

Babaleye stated on Channels  "The law that was made by the House of Assembly was signed outside the shore of Ondo State, and the court did what I call 'judicial tsunami' and hacked down that law." "The 33 municipal governments came to an end as a result. The title of the law that created it is "Ondo State Creation of Local Government Law 2023," notwithstanding the governor's attempts to claim that it was not local government but rather LCDA.

It is quite evident that the legislators intended to establish a local government. The lawyer claims that Section 8 (1 to 5) of the country's constitution lays out the prerequisites in detail for establishing local government. He claimed the court argued that the governor ought not to have signed the measure out of state, explaining that the constitution was not adhered to in the founding of the LCDAs the previous year.