Calls For Restructuring In Nigeria

The Ooni of Ife, Adeyeye Ogunwusi, and Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka have warned Nigerian political leaders to take active steps towards providing solutions to socio-political conflicts that could lead Nigeria to another civil war.

Legit.ng gathers the Kaduna state governor only signed an Executive Order creating three new ministries, while abolishing three ministries and amending the mandates of three others.

Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams, has commended President Muhammadu Buhari on his views that Nigeria is in need of true federalism now.

The Osun state federal lawmaker who is also the chief whip of the National Assembly, however, explained that a lawmaker may have the intention of pushing calls for restructuring, but said it is however subject to a majority vote.

Senator Adeseye Ogunlewe has said that power will not shift to the south as being speculated and that the north will still continue to rule after 2023.

Represented by a Senior Lecturer of the Islamic Studies at the Bayero University Kano (BUK), Dr. Bashir Aliyu Umar, he said the elites use the manipulation lines as major source of communal violence and insecurity in the country.