Some politicians and activists have disagreed with
President Muhammadu Buhari on an issue he raised in his new year broadcast that
Nigeria’s problems were mainly on processes and not the structure.
Buhari had during a nationwide broadcast, said that
his view about agitations for restructuring was that Nigeria’s problems were
more to do with process than the
structure. The politicians and activists
expressed disagreement with the President in separate interviews in Lagos on
Thursday.
Chief Martin Onovo, a former Presidential Candidate
of National Conscience Party, said that Nigeria’s problems were not mainly
about processes.
“Nigeria’s problems are multifaceted including
leadership, corruption, and skewed structure. It is wrong to claim that
the problems border mainly on processes,’’ he said.
Onovo, however, urged the President to fulfill his
campaign promises to Nigerians. Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin, the President of Women
Arise for Change Initiative, said that there could never be a good process
without a proper structure.
“It is difficult to have a good process without a
proper structure. It is a case of a software and hardware. You put software in
hardware. Nigeria must first get its structure right and a good process shall
be added unto it,’’ Okei-Odumakin. Mr. Ehiz Omokhuale, the Lagos State Chairman
of Civil Liberty Organisation, said processes should be means to the main
objective of restructuring.
“Any system needs a process, the process is not the
destination as the president believes, he is postponing our evil day if he does
not embrace restructuring."
“The present system is over concentrating at the
center; it is a wasteful system, for instance, the National Assembly and
states. Our state governors are the richest set of humans on earth. That is why
most governors gravitate to the National Assembly after their tenure to combine
the buffet," Omokhuale said.
Alhaji Musa Umar, a Chieftain in Kano Chapter of All
Progressives Congress, urged Nigerians to understand the concept of
restructuring.
“The concept of restructuring is not well understood
by Nigerians, it means different things to varied opinions, ranging from power
devolution, resource control, federal character and zoning of the presidency
and so on."
“Whatever aspect of the Nigerian way of life we
decide to restructure, it will come to naught if the processes are not right.
However, being a democratic nation, if it is the wish of the majority to
restructure, then let it be, we cannot run away from it forever."
“My fear is if we don’t have an attitudinal change
and we can not get the processes right, restructuring may fail, then
what?," Umar said.
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