Former President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief John Nnia Nwodo, has restated the call for restructuring of Nigeria, saying that the processes to begin the restructuring of Nigeria as a nation must be concluded before the 2023 elections.
Chief Nwodo, was speaking on Friday at the 17th Chief Gani Fawehinmi annual lecture.
He maintained that the process of restructuring must be concluded before 2023, so as to avert a situation where sections of the country may boycott the elections and present the country with a constitutional force majeure.
According to Nwodo, there was a time the mainstay of Nigeria’s economy was agriculture, and all the regions had different items they were producing and exporting, which availed them funds to develop their regions.
He therefore, urged the Federal Government to ensure the completion of the restructuring process before the next dispensation so that the nation would avoid what he termed the coming catastrophe.
Nwodo recalled that things worked so well then because Nigeria operated a regional system of government that allowed regions to enjoy sovereignty over their national resources whilst paying royalties and taxes to the Federal Government.
He further noted that the domestic security was independent and uncontrolled by the Federal Government, then, suddenly, the army came to power and abrogated the constitution, and turned the country into a unitary state and imposed a unitary constitution on nation.
The former Ohaneze Ndigbo President General therefore stressed the need for restructuring, while emphasis must return to agriculture and education, and domestic security must remain in the hands of the federating units, as according to him, living safe in Nigeria today is by luck.
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