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By Ochereome Nnanna
FROM Action Group to UPN, to NADECO to PRONACO, the agitation for
restructuring is concentrated among the South West people of Southern
Nigeria. The whole aggression originated form Action Group, and the
intention was to deny the North the benefit of the population and land
mass. It is therefore a gang-up to deprive the North the benefits it is
getting for been richly endowed…this agitation is not driven by
patriotism, rather its driven by hate and envy and this campaign started
with some politicians in the South west way back in 1959.” —ALHAJI
TANKO YAKASSAI, NORTHERN ELDER
WHAT is “restructuring” in the context of the Nigerian political
discourse? In simple terms, it means removing the centralised, “federal”
system put by the military political class in our constitution in 1979
and 1999. It means allowing the federating units to have more of the
economic, social and political powers currently concentrated in the
Centre. These powers made the Centre so powerful as to confer
quasi-colonial authority on those who control the centre. Yet, it
rendered the Federal Government so inefficient and indolent as to turn
Nigeria into a state that does not work; a virtual failed state in spite
of its humongous potentials.
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/10/pa-yakassai-spoke-for-the-parasites/
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/10/pa-yakassai-spoke-for-the-parasites/
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