A former political Adviser and minister under ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, Professor of administration, ABC Nwosu, has expressed surprise that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration has rejected numerous calls for the nation’s restructuring.
The former minister was speaking in an interview with Daily Sun on current issues and the current regime.
He said those resisting the call for restructuring are doing so because they are benefiting from the current damaged system.
He said, “I am not in government, I’m not a prophet, neither am l Rev. Fr. Mbaka to see through prophecy how it can be done.
“All I know is that many Nigerians, good Nigerians have said, if something is not working, try to see how it can work. That’s how I see the word, restructuring. Our federation is not working.
“It hasn’t been working. Therefore, restructuring is the best thing that should be done now to see if it will work.
“But I’m baffled that a government that says Change cannot understand change, even when it comes to structures.
“You said change personnel, we accepted. Nigerians have voted your change personnel. They are saying change structure. You say no way. How and why? Because the same problem is there, you need to change structure.
“Change structure is restructuring. Economic change is diversification. If government says it wants to diversify, it has accepted change in diversification.
“The old people have been changed, what government is finding difficult is change of structure and I don’t know why? Fine, but it is going nowhere until it changes items in the Exclusive List, even in Legislative List.
“We must re-examine that item 39 that says petroleum under the liquid, gas and solid are the exclusive preserve of the federal government.
“We must ask why we are still finding it difficult to pass the petroleum industry’s bill. These are the cob webs government has to remove.
“Restructuring is not going back to regions. I’m shocked at that kind of ignorance and nonsense. Who says restructuring is going back to regionalism?”
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