A former
National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bisi Akande, has
accused the military of lopsided political structure on Nigeria.
The former
Governor of Osun State berated successive military governments that ruled
Nigeria for 29 years since independence for creating, “states and local
governments by fiat for selfish reasons rather than through any scientific
political reasoning.”
Delivering a
paper titled, “Devolution of Powers and National Restructuring” over the
weekend at the APC-USA Second Annual Convention in Washington DC, Akande said
the error by successive military governments has “necessitated a restructuring
of the country.”
He lamented
that the military,” inequitably created more local governments per population
per state in the North than in the South, thereby giving the North an unfair
advantage in revenue allocation from the national treasury.”
Akande,
therefore, called for restructuring, which he described as “equitable
rearrangement and redistribution of the existing states and local governments
per population within the various ethnic nationalities”.
He said,
“Appropriate amendments to the country’s constitution, according to him, will
be required to accommodate the various rearrangements and redistributions.”
The former
APC chairman, however, admitted it would be “politically unwise to define the
word equitable in such a way that it would be easy to convince those enjoying
the unfair advantage at present to surrender such.”
He said
restructuring was a “Herculean task for all Nigerians compared to the political
change of power for which the APC was put together.”
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