By Polycarp Onwubiko
Guardian editorial March 24,
2024 titled: "Between presidential and parliamentary system of
government", was a great disappointment to its devoted followers on the
over 66 Editorials on the imperative of Restructuring the Federation to reinvent
True fiscal federalism.
In an apparent complete
volte-face while dabbling into the unnecessary debate on whether the country
should return to the Parliamentary style of music, it disappointingly postulate
thus:
"The challenge with the political leadership and governance in Nigeria is much about ills of politics than the desirability or otherwise of either the presidential and parliamentary system".
***Comment:
This position of the Guardian
editorial is a complete sellout if not a brazen fallacy. The pith and marrow of
the multifarious challenges that have crippled Nigeria governance is the
military Decreed Unitary-Federal contraption: the 1999 Constitution deceptively
qualified "as amended" based on the base preferences and venality of
the "Fulani Feudal Oligarchy and Northern Political Emirate
Establishment" who hate to hear about Restructuring the lopsided
Federation to reinvent True fiscal federalism with multi policing system as
integral part of Restructuring governance.
Forget about the political
cranks who parade themselves about holding talks on the viability of returning
the politically jagged country to the Parliamentary style of government. It is
simply a distraction to subdue the clamour for Restructuring the Federation
through National Constitutional Dialogue or called Constituent Assembly of
selected representatives of ethnic nationalities to brainstorm and fashion
PEOPLE'S CONSTITUTION resemblance of the 1963 Republic Constitution dumped by
the uneducated military as pertaining to systems of government the world over.
There was nothing wrong with the first republic parliamentary style of
government but for the vaulting and vaunting ambition of the "Fulani
Feudal Oligarchy and Northern Political Emirate Establishment" to dominate
the entire ethnic nationalities and institute its dream Islamization agenda.
The agenda is still on course
with the terrorists masquerading as herdsmen from the Sahel region of West
Africa as the foot soldiers occupying all the forests and jungles throughout
the country. That is why they stridently kicked against State Police which is
an integral part of Restructuring governance. They prefer the madness in
kidnapping and taking ransom in addition to the ravaging Islamic insurgency
deceptively tagged Boko Haram, bandits, criminals ISWAP, and herdsmen clutching
AK-47 without the security agencies disturbing them. Who is fooling whom in the
apparently "expired Nigeria"?
Polycarp Onwubiko, media
commentator writes from Awka, Anambra state.
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