Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has
backed the call for the restructuring of Nigeria
for true federalism.
The governor said it was strange that the All
Progressives Congress, which was at the fore-
front of the agitation for true federalism was
now against restructuring as the ruling party.
Fayose, in a statement in Ado Ekiti on Sunday
by his Special Assistant on Public
Communications and New Media, Lere
Olayinka, stated that Nigeria was returning to
full-blown unitary system of government
“under the present APC government of
President Muhammadu Buhari.”
He said, “It is on record that the APC said at
a debate on ‘Addressing the rising insecurity
in Nigeria, what is the master plan?’ organised
by the Centre for Democracy and Development
(CDD) on December 18, 2014, that it would
ensure true federalism and ensure adequate
community policing through the establishment
of state-controlled police so as to curb the
protracted security challenges in the country.
“Sad enough, now that it is the ruling party,
the APC is no longer talking about true
federalism, especially the state police that it
canvassed while in the opposition.”
Governor Fayose, who said States must be
strengthened for the country to develop, noted
that Nigeria developed faster in the 50s and
60s when it was practicing confederal system
of government, with the regions running its
own affairs almost autonomously.
“A situation where there are mineral resources
in a State and the State cannot do anything
about them without approval from the Federal
Government will not foster the development
that we all yearn for.
“A situation where the federal government has
turned itself into lord and master over other
federating units in the country, using federal
agencies to oppress even State governors is
not acceptable.

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Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has
backed the call for the restructuring of Nigeria
for true federalism.
The governor said it was strange that the All
Progressives Congress, which was at the fore-
front of the agitation for true federalism was
now against restructuring as the ruling party.
Fayose, in a statement in Ado Ekiti on Sunday
by his Special Assistant on Public
Communications and New Media, Lere
Olayinka, stated that Nigeria was returning to
full-blown unitary system of government
“under the present APC government of
President Muhammadu Buhari.”
He said, “It is on record that the APC said at
a debate on ‘Addressing the rising insecurity
in Nigeria, what is the master plan?’ organised
by the Centre for Democracy and Development
(CDD) on December 18, 2014, that it would
ensure true federalism and ensure adequate
community policing through the establishment
of state-controlled police so as to curb the
protracted security challenges in the country.
“Sad enough, now that it is the ruling party,
the APC is no longer talking about true
federalism, especially the state police that it
canvassed while in the opposition.”
Governor Fayose, who said States must be
strengthened for the country to develop, noted
that Nigeria developed faster in the 50s and
60s when it was practicing confederal system
of government, with the regions running its
own affairs almost autonomously.
“A situation where there are mineral resources
in a State and the State cannot do anything
about them without approval from the Federal
Government will not foster the development
that we all yearn for.
“A situation where the federal government has
turned itself into lord and master over other
federating units in the country, using federal
agencies to oppress even State governors is
not acceptable.

Apc is a group of scammers that have scammed gullible Nigerians

"Buhari is a man of integrity" is the highest dummy ever sold to intellectuals and the greatest scam of the 21st century

On May 29, Muhammadu Buhari will take office as President of Nigeria. Expectations are high as most Nigerians expect the coming government to wave a magic wand and make all their problems disappear. The Buhari campaign which ran on a ‘CHANGE’ mantra made numerous promises to Nigerians during the campaign.

Buhari’s campaign promises as presented by Vanguard

On Politics and Governance:
I, Muhammadu Buhari, believe that our politics is broken. Our nation urgently needs fundamental political reform and improvement in governance more transparency and accountable. If you nominate me in December, 2014 and elect me in February 2015, my administration will:

1. Initiate action to amend the Nigerian Constitution with a view to devolving powers, duties, and responsibilities to states in order to entrench true Federalism and the Federal spirit;
2. Strengthen INEC to reduce, if possible, eliminate electoral malpractices in Nigerian’s political life;
3. Attract the best and brightest of our sons and daughters into our politics and public service by aggressive recruitment of private sector people, academics, and professionals within

Nigeria and in the Diaspora through internships, fellowships, executive appointments, and special nomination to contest elective offices;
4. Prevent the abuse and misuse of Executive, Legislative and Public offices, through greater accountability, transparency, strict, and implementable anti-corruption laws, through strengthening and sanitising the EFCC and ICPC as independent entities;
5. Amend the Constitution to remove immunity from prosecution for elected officers in criminal cases;

6. Restructure governance for a leaner, more efficient, and adequately compensated public service sector, while promoting effective participation of the private sector for more robust job creation programmes to employ the teaming youth.;


7. Require full disclosure in media outlets, of all government contracts over N100m prior to award and during implementation at regular intervals;

8. Reform and Strengthen the Justice System for efficient administration and dispensation of justice with the creation of special courts for accelerated hearing of corruption, drug trafficking, terrorism and similar cases of national importance;

9. Fully enforce the Freedom of Information Act l so that government held data sets can be requested and used by the public and then such data sets be publish on regular basis;
10. Amend the Constitution to require Local governments to publish their meeting minutes, service performance data, and items of spending over N10M.
Security and Conflict Resolution

On National Security and Defence:

I will urgently secure the territorial integrity of the nation. I will never leave the defence of the nation in the hands of Hunters, Children, and Civilian JTF through the following:
1. Urgently address capacity building mechanisms of law enforcement agents in terms of quantity and quality as this is critical in safeguarding the sanctity of lives and property;
2. Establish a well trained, adequately equipped and goals driven Serious Crime Squad to combat insurgencies, kidnapping, armed robbery, ethno-religious and communal clashes, nationwide;

3. Consult and amend the Constitution to enable States and Local Governments to create city, Local government and State Policing systems, base on the resources available at each levels, to address the peculiar needs of each community. I will therefore work with the National Assembly to set and revised, when needed, boundaries of operations, for Federal, State, and Local government policing units, through new Criminal Justice legislation to replace the Criminal Code, the Penal Code and the Police Act.

4. I will push for more robust support in the Security and Economic stability of the West-African sub-region and African Continent as a whole. I will seek and maintain close and frank relationship with ALL of West Africa; Special relationship with South Africa and its Sub-region; UK, USA, Canada, EU, Asia, and the Middle East .

On Conflict Resolution, National Unity, And Social Harmony:

I will;
1. Establish a Conflict Resolution Commission to help prevent, mitigate, and resolve civil conflicts within the polity;
2. Bring permanent peace and solution to the insurgency issues in the North-East; the Niger Delta; and other conflict prone states and areas such as Plateau, Benue, Bauchi, Borno, Abia, Taraba, Yobe, and Kaduna in order to engender national unity and social harmony;

3. Initiate policies to ensure that Nigerians are free to live and work in any part of the country by removing state of origin, tribe, ethnic and religious affiliations from documentation requirements in our identification of citizens and replace these with State of Residence and fashion out the appropriate minimal qualification for obtaining such a state of residency, nation-wide.