While speaking at the 8th Annual Lecture Series organised by The Change We Need Nigeria Initiative on Friday, the Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, said the present call for restructuring Nigeria is now turning to another form of opposition.
Adesina who spoke on the theme: “Disintegration or Restructuring: Which way Nigeria?”, said
“I had begun to get suspicious at time that is this call for restructuring another form of opposition? Why are people who have been in power for 16 years now the champions of restructuring?” he queried.
The presidential spokesman who noted that Nigeria has always been undergoing restructuring before and after independence, said he wondered why the present call for restructuring is being accompanied with disintegration.
“When we talk of restructuring, we don’t necessarily need to accompany it with disintegration,” he said.
He said the APC-led federal government is not opposed to restructuring but it is opposed to anything that causes disintegration.
“We will get to where we are going on restructuring and Nigeria will remain one united indivisible entity,” he added.
The spokesperson of Afenifere Group, Yinka Odumakin, said Nigeria should be restored to a federal spirit where the rights of the nationalities within it are recognised with a desire to build a centre that coordinates and not overlords.
“We must move away from a rental and indolent economy to a productive economy where every section of the country becomes a productive centre,” he stated.
The convener of Change We Need Nigeria, Dr Cosmas Ilechukwu, called for convocation of a Constituent Assembly of the elected representatives of all the ethic nationalities in Nigeria to fashion terms of our union and governance structure that will administrate it.
Ilechukwu, who is also the General Overseer, Charismatic Renewal Ministries, urged Nigerians to work for one united, prosperous, just and free Nigeria under God and for the good of all.
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