By Polycarp Onwubiko
Few
days to the inauguration of president Tinubu's first year in office, Daily Sun
conducted public opinion poll (POP) captioned: "Task
for Tinubu: how president can put Nigeria on path to progress in 2nd
year".
The
resounding verdict across the country was lamentations and regrets; a hopeless
and unredeemable situation because of lack of clear-cut focus and strategic cum
pragmatic solution to reinvent Nigeria with TRUE FISCAL FEDERALISM which
remains the ONLY path for Nigeria to survive. Sadly, president Tinubu has, by
body language, is not prepared to direct Nigeria outside the ultra-conservative
values of the supposed "Fulani Feudal Oligarchy and Northern Political
Emirate Establishment".
Hear
the President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo World Wide, Chief Dr. Emmanuel
Iwuanyanwu in his point-blank assertion who said inter alia"
"...For
example, the problem of this country requires restructuring, if you notice,
every tribe is talking of their own problems – Yoruba talking of Oduduwa, Igbo
talking of Biafra, Ijaw talking of their own, the most important thing is for
us to restructure this country. The country is too big to be ruled from the
centre and that’s the basis of all these troubles. When this country is restructured,
every state will take care of itself development at local government level.
“Every
state would learn to be economically dependent. States shouldn’t be going to
Abuja for the sake of sharing revenue. There’s no state that does not have
resources that will make it economically independent. So, I think they should
face the issue of restructuring very seriously with the National Assembly.
“Another thing is insecurity, it’s getting too bad; you wake up and hear that some people have raided a whole village, wiped away an entire village. We as a country should be able to control insecurity and people have suggested personalising security,” he said. The Igbo leader also said that restructuring will also solve the minimum wage issue as every state would be able to know what they would earn"
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Polycarp Onwubiko is a political analyst, writes from Awka, Anambra State.
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