Nasir el-Rufai, governor of
Kaduna, says the north is ready for restructuring and the region would be its
biggest beneficiary.
The governor said this on
Wednesday in Ibadan, capital of Oyo state, while delivering a keynote address
at a colloquium organised to mark the 80th birthday anniversary of Bisi Akande,
a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
El-Rufai said the northern
leaders who speak against restructuring do not represent the people as most of
them have never held any elective post.
The governor said some Nigerians
have exploited restructuring without a clear plan or implementation strategy.
“I want to state here and now,
that not only is the north ready, willing and able to embrace inclusive
restructuring of our polity, but to add that those that speak loudly against it
represent no one. Most of them have never held elective offices, and therefore
do not appreciate that the north with its natural endowments stands to be the
biggest beneficiary of restructuring.
“With all sense of
responsibility, I believe some Nigerians have made a career and livelihood
around restructuring without deep thought, or a clear plan or implementation
strategy. For them, it is a tool to alienate rather than convert our
compatriots to the nation-building imperative that restructuring offers.
“Rather than the hard graft of
solving our governance problems, this group would rather grab headlines and
mouth sound-bites at opportunities like this. You can almost sense that this
people actually dread restructuring becoming public policy, having succeeded in
living off a serious national imperative for so long. We must be mindful of
this class of people.”
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