By Polycarp Onwubiko
Daily Independent Editorial, October 4, 2024 has passionately advised president Tinubu to hearken to the nationwide clarion calls for Restructuring the lopsided Federation if he means well for the country.
It reads inter alia:
"There is no gainsaying
that this newspaper has been in the vanguard of the agitation for restructuring
Nigeria along the principles of federalism.
"We have consistently
argued that for the country to regain its lost glory and join the league of
developed economies of the world, a return to full-fledged federalism of the
independence era is a sine qua non.
"Empirical evidence shows
that this nation was better governed and on the path of an economic medium
power before the brutal termination of the First Republic by the military on
January 15, 1966.
"The present situation is
not tolerable. The present unitary structure disguised as federalism, where all
roads lead to Abuja, is not sustainable. This is the time to restructure
Nigeria.
"The centre should concern
itself only with core federal issues like defence, external affairs, currency
and customs while each state or region should ‘eat what it kills’ under a
proper (fiscal) federalism".
***My comment:
Igbo proverb says: "The
mouth that regularly warns will continue to warn; but the ear that should
listen, would always close its ears".
Patriotic exhortations have
been consistent in advancing pragmatic panacea to restore the glory of Nigeria
for the overall benefits of all the ethnic nationalities but a particular
section of the country have vowed that its selfish calculations must be
acceptable by other ethnic nationalities; and pigheadedness is the cause of all
the monstrousities and abominable happenings in the name of political
leadership in Nigeria.
The first and foremost
responsibility of government the world over is maximum security. Much was
obtained in the First Republic with the realistic principles of federal system
of government. To be fair to the military regime which came in to quell the socioeconomic
inferno that was about to destroy the country, it SUSPECT the Federal
(Independence) Constitution.
To the consternation of the
Southerners especially, the military autocrats teleguided by a section of the
country, having seen the selfish benefits of the Military s Centralized
Governance to their areas, stridently kicked against Restructuring the lopsided
Federation which is simply to return the country to the pre-war realistic
federal system of government; nothing more, nothing less, as it were.
The covert design to kick
against Restructuring is simply to fastrack the dream Islamization agenda, with
the terrorists masquerading as herdsmen, as the foot soldiers who, by the
so-called "Fulani cultural heritage of open grazing" have colonized
all the forests and jungles throughout the country (don't mind the so-called
'bandits and cried, ISWAP, ANSARU , Boko Haram deliberately left to inhabit the
so-called "ungoverned spaces", preparatory for the takeoff of the
Islamization age long Islamic project.
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