President Muhammadu Buhari has described the call for restructuring Nigeria, particularly from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as suspicious.
Buhari stated this through his Special Adviser to on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, at the Change We Need Nigeria Initiative 8th Annual Lecture Series with the theme: Disintegration or Restructuring: Which Way Nigeria?
Adesina said, “In the history of Nigeria there was a time where the various people and communities lived in this space that is today called Nigeria. And then the colonial masters came, formed what is called the northern protectorate, southern protectorate, that was the restructuring of what has subsisted. And then in 1914 precisely, the northern and southern protectorates, were amalgamated into one country, that was another restructuring. Did it come with any sabre-rattling or did it send the country into a tailspin, no? And then we got to a point that we had regionalism in the country, the regions were formed and we begin to grow, that was another restructuring, it happened almost naturally and each region began to work on its own pace.
“We will get to where we are going on restructuring and Nigeria remains one united indivisible entity. That is my thought. And from the first paper I have heard I know this issue will be dissected properly today and at the end, we will come up with something that is pragmatic, something that is not emotive, something that is not knee jack, something that can take this issue and clamour for restructuring forward.”
” So the way the opposition is calling for restructuring is very suspicious,”
In reaction, the Afenifere spokesman, Yinka Odumakin, disagreed with Adesina that restructuring was an opposition thing.
He insisted that Nigeria’s unity is a negotiable warning that those kicking against it risk disintegration.
He said, “The unity of Nigeria can be negotiated. It is fallacy to say it can’t be negotiated. By restructuring, we are saying Nigeria should move from money sharing economy to a productive economy. If we refuse to take this national course, I’m sorry to say time is running out of Nigeria.
“Let us restructure Nigeria now, return to the Nigeria our founding fathers initiated. Our best is in the past. Let us join hands to build a Nigeria that we will all be proud of.”
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