By Polycarp Onwubiko
The current hullabaloo about Local govt autonomy is a calculated ploy and distraction from the real monstrous challenges facing Tinubu administration which restructuring the lopsided Federation can easily solve.
All over the world where
Federal system of government is practiced, there are only two tiers of
government: The Federal Government and the State Governments as seen in the
United States, Canada, Australia etc; even in Nigeria in the First Republic
with the Independent Constitution which was later renamed Republican
Constitution.
It does not pay to deceive
Nigerians on the clearly unnecessary and uncalled for non-issue of Local
government council autonomy covertly prodded by Fulani Feudal Oligarchy which
hate restructuring the lopsided Federation with passion because it would
truncate their dream Islamization agenda.
The Fulani cabal know that
State Police will stop their foot soldiers of Islamization agenda, terrorists
masquerading as herdsmen imported from the Sahel region of West Africa. They
seamlessly embarked on territorial expansion, ethnic cleansing and mindless
slaughtering of indigenous population in the Christian communities and taking
physical occupation of the deserted villages and settling down and changing the
village names to read Fulani nanes while the supposed Nigerian police pretend
to be helpless in checking their brazen lawlessness and crass impunity, raping
women and forming kidnapping syndicate for humongous ransom.
The INEC would pretend that
they don't know what is happening and have allegedly been registering the
Fulani names in the deserted villages as the survived ones are languishing in
makeshift refugee resettlements while the Aso Rock Villa landlord pretend that
nothing is happening amiss. INEC are registering the names of the Fulani
invaders and new Fulani names for voting. Who is fooling whom in the already
emasculated decadent order that is Nigeria?
Since Federation all over the
world has 2-tier system; Tinubu should leave the Governors alone to manage
local administration as they like which was the practice in the First Republic
when there were realistic principles of federal system of government. President
Tinubu has to discard whatever (alleged 'covenant' between him and the Fulani
Feudal Oligarchy and Northern Political Emirate Establishment") and set up
CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY of selected representatives of ethnic nationalities to
fashion PEOPLE'S CONSTITUTION where there should be TWO TIERS OF GOVERNMENT as
was in the First Republic. The federal government should have NO BUSINESS on
how the Governors run the local government councils.
The military autocrats
committed an aberration and other monstrousities in the 1999 Constitution by
creating THERE TIERS OF GOVERNMENT which is out of sync with Federations the
world over. Tinubu should set in motion to Restructure governance and restore
two tier system of government as practiced in the First Republic as well as in
the Federations the world over.
Polycarp Onwubiko is a
political analyst writes from Awka, Anambra State.
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