The former Vice President and
presidential aspirant under the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP)
Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has said that restructuring of the country is the only
way forward which will guarantee equity.
Abubakar said that the north
which has been against restructuring has taken up the gullet to ensure that the
country is restructured for the benefit of all and for the good of all.
Speaking in Umuahia when he
visited the PDP Abia state chapter, to seek their support during the upcoming
national convention of the party, Abubakar said that restructuring was the way
to go to keep the country intact and on the path of progress.
Abubakar noted that the north has
been doing all it can to ensure that restructuring takes place in the country
which will go a long way to unify the diverse people and also stop the continuos agitation going
on across the length and breadth of Nigeria.
He said, “The North has already
announced that restructuring is acceptable to them.So it’s a question of what
the northern leaders and southern leaders meeting together to agree on the
issues”.
The former Vice President said
that the problem of agitations in the country like the Indigenous People of
Biafra (IPOB) arose because of the lopsided nature of the federation which
favors one section of the country against the others.
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Abubakar said that one of the
ways to stop the several agitations goings on across the country is to ensure
the equal distribution of both political and social appointment so that every
section of the country will be satisfied.
He explained that the agitations
going on in the country such the IPOB and others like them arose because they
are all children of disequilibrium in the political set of the country in
recent time.
Abubakar said, “When you
restructure this country and you give more resources to empower the component
units of this country you will not have the problem of IPOB and their likes”.
“IPOB, Agenifere, Niger Delta
groups and others like them are looking for self-determination and when you
devolve more powers and resources the issue of self-determination will be a
thing of the past”.
On the issue of security, the
former VP said, “Security is one of the fundamental challenges of the country,
I have been an advocate of either local or community policing to deal with
local issues”.
“We have one single polices which
is not good and also not working as I do not know of any country that practices
a federation and have this kind of policing, a centralized, one single police,
I don’t know”.
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