Former Senate President, Sen. Ken Nnamani has called on Ndigbo not to allow anyone fool them with a promise of restructuring of the country.
Nnamani made this known in Enugu on Thursday in apparent response to Ohanaeze Ndigbo’s endorsement of PDP presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, who has vowed to restructure the country if elected.
The ex-senate president stated that no single individual or arm of government could restructure the country alone.
He also debunked insinuations that his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), was against restructuring, adding that the Nasir el-Rufai panel would not have come into being if the party was really against restructuring.
Nnamani said, “APC, the party I belong to is not averse to restructuring. It set up a committee headed by Governor Nasir el-Rufai on restructuring. I was in Ibadan recently, during the birthday of Chief Bisi Akande; and that was the paper presented. I was one of the discussants.
“By the way, any person telling you that he is going to restructure Nigeria; be he the President; Senate President or the Chief Justice of Nigeria-those are the heads of the three arms of Government; it wouldn’t work. It requires the concerted effort of everyone; it’s just a fallacy. You require the National Assembly; you require amendment of our constitution; all hands should be on deck. In restructuring, State Assemblies will be involved; the governors, everybody.
“It’s a good thing to restructure. We can restructure and still remain one country. There’s nothing bad about that; but it’s the method. But for a socio-cultural organisation like Ohanaeze now to take a position, that somebody said ‘I will restructure Nigeria’, it doesn’t lie in any persons hand to restructure Nigeria; neither APC, PDP or any other party.”
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