A Yoruba regionalist and vigilante organisation, the Oodua People’s Congress (OPC), yesterday, tasked President Bola Tinubu to quickly set motion in place towards the restructuring of Nigeria’s governing system to return it to a regionalism basis where component states will develop at their pace.
The Congress, during a two-day meeting held at Oodua House in Ikeja, Lagos, urged Tinubu not to fall into the error of his predecessors, who thought there were alternative strategies to reinvigorate the governing structure of Nigeria other than to restructure it.
In a communique signed by Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams, after the meeting, the group restated the need for complete overhauling of Nigeria’s structure, insisting that regionalism is the only solution to the structural imbalances of the country.
In another remark, Chairman, Afenifere Renewal Group (ARG), Wale Oshun, also appealed to the President on restructuring.
He said that is the only thing the administration could give the country that would last and endure. “Whatever else that is done now in the form of policy and achievement without restructuring can as well be reversed in future by another leader. Nigeria must be restructured to true federalism.”
The OPC also reiterated its readiness to partner with South-West state governments in their desire to improve the security architectures in their respective states, just as it urged the Federal Government to conduct a national census to ascertain the true population of the country.
“Census remains the best measure that could help in addressing the various challenges of the country.
“We are determined to continue pressing on for restructuring as the best solution to the various challenges of Nigeria. We seek regionalism as a system that allows all the six regions (federating units) under the Nigerian federation) to develop at their own pace in accordance with the 1960 and 1963 Constitutions of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“It is our hope, therefore, that with restructuring of Nigeria along regional lines, the country will fully realise its potential as one of the leading black nations in the world.”
