The National Chairman of National Conscience Party (NCP), Yunusa Tanko, has lent support to the calls for restructuring in the country; describing it as necessary for Nigeria to survive.
He noted that restructuring the country offers Nigeria the chance to quickly address the various sectional agitations, which they described as capable of crashing and destabilising the nation.
Yunusa also identified restructuring as capable of bringing “equity and justice to all.”
In a chat with the media, he said: “We don’t believe in taking care of some areas and making other areas feel uncomfortable. We believe in a structure that will make the system work and check the neglect that is causing all these agitations. The system is non-functional and not delivering to the people; we should consider everything that will give comfort to the society.”
Similarly, the presidential candidate for KOWA Party in the 2015 general elections, Prof. Remi Sonaiya, who identified restructuring as a key programme of the party, said the country could not afford to continue with a system that is not working.
She said, “Certainly, we cannot continue like this. In our party, one of the key points that we focus on is the need to have true federalism because what we are practising is not a federal system of government, yet, we call ourselves the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“Since the military forcibly centralised the government, successive civilian administrations have continued with that system that was imposed on us. It is not a good system and we have seen that it is not working. With a true federal system, each region will determine their priorities and work in line with the priorities.
“Government has been saying the unity of Nigeria is not negotiable but nobody is saying that Nigeria should break up, I’m not saying that. When we ran a true federal system with regions then, we were one country. Let us do the right thing. What is preventing us from doing the right thing?”
Comments