kingzizzy:


Which one is unity begger? You are the person already begging for unity with 'SS'. Its laughable how someone can bring more than 40 tribes together and call them 'SS' or Niger Delta, what is that one supposed to mean?

A refendum has to be used to ask the various tribes which Region they want to belong to, not snatch peoples lands in the name of 'South South' that is not even recognised by the constitution.

Cjrane2:
although this will solve most of Nigeria provlems. I believe we have gobe beyond what restructuring and true federalism can resolve.
Nigeria simply needs to break up and free the different nations entrapped within it.

bewla:
say who. Two FTC in a day oloooo de Jo ishilove carry go

gberra:
Omo, Come to daddy.

aolawale025:
If the six geopolitical zones are adopted as federating units, there is bound to be more resources for development. It's restructuring in another form

Kemperor:
Bubu said the samething... We are seeing another thing..

Nothing for you Northerners.. NIGERIANS are now politcal active no more political apathy...

mr1759:


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/05/abolish-states-adopt-6-geo-political-zones-federating-units-atiku/

ogashman:
atiku atiku atiku!

where was ur thinking cap wen u were VP?

ohhh this is coming now because of ur presidential ambition which is already dead on arrival. we ain't buying this. let it come from a more better person with integrity.

PapaBrowne:


Having states and regions should not automatically equate to having more and more layers of governance. Everything doesn't need to have a replica of the other. I'd recommend we abolish state houses of assembly and replace them with regional houses, but we should have state executives headed by governors. Having regions and scrapping states would leave us with the same old problem of over centralization.

Also, this idea of sticking to what was in the past is the problem with the African mindset. Who says we cant create something new that would work in this era. True, states were a creation of the military, that doesn't mean it should be discarded just because! We should seek a model that would take us into the future, not just something that was in the past.

My best bet would be like this:

The 6 regions and 36 states are the best geographical composition we can have in Nigeria today. So we should maintain that. I would have recommended an additional state in the South East to match up with the rest but I think that should be up to the south east to decide. But the landmass is small. If the entire South East were a state, it would be the 14th largest state in Nigeria meaning there are currently 13 states in Nigeria bigger than the 5 states of the South East combined. But then again, Lagos as small as it is stays bigger in GDP than the least 25 states combined.

I would recommend an executive President in Abuja to manage the country.
I would recommend six regional heads to serve as executives for the regions.
The state governors should be retained but state houses of assembly should be eradicated and replaced with regional houses.

Executives are responsible for development so we an have different layers for that as that requires everyday work. Lawmakers just make laws and sincerely their services are not needed daily

We need to come up with new solutions as deliberate extensively to see which would work out best. And es, if it doesn't work after trying it, we discard it and try something else!

gberra:
Will you stop fooling yourself. The situation in the SS is similar to that of the NC each with its identifying features

kingzizzy:
The entire 36 states in Nigeria are a waste of time and money, they should be all abolished because Regions are much better and cost effective.

The only place I differ with Atiku is the adoption of the 6 geopolitical zones as the federating Regions. I think that a referendum should be held to allow people decide what Region they want to join.

Also, each Region will have right of secession.

mr1759:


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/05/abolish-states-adopt-6-geo-political-zones-federating-units-atiku/

kingzizzy:


Identifying features such as what? Oil?

mr1759:


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/05/abolish-states-adopt-6-geo-political-zones-federating-units-atiku/

three:
In the spirit of not ignoring the message because of the character of the messenger, this is the way to go.

Restructuring is NOT because of ethnicity but SERVES TO hardwire efficient public administration and National Development Planning.

Outside of this the current system encourages 'rent seeking'.


structural growth works intensely better at Local, Regional and National level and not Local, State and National.

If we need a high speed train from Lagos to Ilorin, how does that get done unless FG intervenes (fat chance), whereas on a regional level it's easy-peasy.

The amount of wasted funds spent on Government functionaries in every state is absurd particularly in a developing country like ours.

A bank in Nigeria just increased its customer base by about 1.7M without opening an additional branch, Brick and Mortar government costs more money and is less efficient in this day and age.

'Young People' you are toying with decisions that will affect you when you are 'Old People' and the people that made the decision have since left to the other side.

aribisala0:
Lagos state is not

luwathobi:
Buhari returned us to 25 years ago now Atiku want to return us to Awolowo days

mr1759:
so in south south where are we going to use as regional city capital