Atiku, on Monday, December 12, reiterated calls to re-structure Nigeria.
The former Vice President, who made this known in a paper presentation, titled: “Nigerian Federalism: Continuing Quest for Stability and Nation-Building”, at a forum in Abuja, said, Nigeria’s current constituted entity, is rooted in corruption, impunity, and injustice, and thus must be reconstituted.
In a series of tweet via his twitter handle, he said, ”Political and civic leaders from across the country, must come together, discuss, negotiate, and make the necessary compromises and sacrifices, needed to restructure our federation, to make us a stronger, more united, productive, and competitive country.
“No section of this country can claim correctly, that its people are better served by the current structure of our federation.
“When we were not dependent on oil revenues, and when the federating units had greater autonomy of action, and were largely responsible for their affairs, they, that is our regional governments, did not owe workers their salaries for several months.
“They did not shut down schools and universities, for several months, because of Teacher’s strikes, and inadequate funding.
“Take a look at the industries that the regional governments established and ran, and the quality of schools that they established, and see if you can see a State Government, or a group of State Governments that have bested them since the emergence of our unitary federalism.
“And also, ask yourself which of those establishments taken over, or established by the Federal Government since, has performed as well as they did under our pre-1966 federal system”, Atiku asked.
Recall, that Atiku had been at the forefront of renewed calls for a restructuring of Nigeria, since the beginning of the year.
Speaking in June, he used his remarks at a Book Launch, also in Abuja, to call for a more federal system, which would put to rest, the disparate yearnings of Nigerians, from all sections of the country.
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