Former Nigerian Ambassador to the Philippines, Dr. Yemi Farounbi; a statesman and Southwest Chairman of Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria (BON), Owolabi Oladejo, and a former Chief of Staff to the late Governor Abiola Ajimobi, Prof. Gbade Ojo, yesterday, called on President Bola Tinubu to work towards amending the Constitution in line with Rotational Presidency of Switzerland for Nigeria to achieve a rebirth.

They made the call during the third Distinguished Eminent Personality Lecture, organised by the Political Science and International Relations Programmes, Bowen University, Iwo, Osun State.

The lecture had the theme: ‘Imperative of Nigeria’s Rebirth: A Pathway to Peace and Progress’.

Two previous speakers in the lecture series were the late Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State and Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State.

The year’s distinguished lecturer, Deacon Oladejo, argued that the Swiss rotational system of government would be the best for the country.  He therefore called on President Bola Tinubu to work towards the amendment of the Constitution and establish a national rebirth commission to properly restructure the country.

The chairman of Impact Group of Media, after taking a look at what obtains in some countries that have similar challenges like Nigeria, particularly in language and ethnicity, prescribed what he considered as steps to be taken to have a Nigeria that can work.

He suggested that the country should be renamed United Regions of Nigeria (URN), saying: “To achieve this, the Federal Government should set up the National Rebirth Commission (NRC). This should also be replicated at the state level. The latter is to be known as the State Rebirth Commission (SRC). This is with the aim of re-establishing autonomous regional structure as obtained in the 1959 (Independence) Constitution only that the regions now should be increased to six.

’The sum total of this is that the nation will now consist of autonomous, self-governing regions with rotational leadership at its centre with the following governance structures:
(a) Central Parliament, (b) Central executive Council (CEC), (c) Central Council of Elders (CCE) and (d) National Council  of States (NCS).

“Functions to be performed by each of these councils are identified. Besides the states, provinces and mayoralities were also advocated. Meaning that there should be national governments, regional governments, state governments.”

On his part, Dr. Farounbi, who was the chairman of the occasion, threw his weight behind Oladejo, saying: “Beginning from the Abacha Constitution conference, the need to make political power equitably accessible for all parts of the country was recognised.”