Against the backdrop of calls to restructure the country
and calls to implement report of the 2014 confab
report, Senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial
district, Sen. Sani Shehu, on Wednesday, opined that the
President Muhammadu Buhari's led administration has
five options towards doing this. This came as several eminent Nigerians have urged President Buhari to restructure the country, as well as implement reports of the 2014 national confab convened by the immediate- past President Goodluck Jonathan.

Recall that former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar had on
May 31, 2016 called for the restructuring of the Nigerian
federation to cater for the aspirations of its component
units.

Atiku, who spoke in Abuja, at the unveiling of a book, ‘We
are all Biafrans,’ written by a journalist, Chido Onumah,
had opined that such restructuring is the only answer to
the current agitation for a Biafra Republic.
Similarly, erudite Scholar and Deputy Chairman, 2014
National Conference, Professor Bolaji Akinyemi, recently
lashed at the Secretary General of the Federation (SGF),
Engineer Babachir Lawal, who had in a recent interview
stated that the President Buhari administration was too
busy with issues of governance, and thus may not have
the luxury of time at the moment to look into the report
of the confab.

Babachir had also described delegates at the confab as
'boys,' who were each given N7 million by the past
administration.
But in a statement personally signed by him, Prof.
Akinyemi had expressed dismay at the choice of words,
which he said Lawal used in a recent interview published
in several national newspapers, describing it as
“intemperate language, crude, rude, offensive and
unbecoming of the high office of state he occupies.”
Professor Akinyemi stated that among the delegates the
SGF referred to as boys were “the Emir of Ilorin, the
Lamido of Adamawa, King Alfred Diete Spiff, the Gbong
Gwom of Jos, Emir of Yauri, Emir of Dutse, Emir of Askira
and the Amanyanabo of Nembe.
“Various judges of the High Courts, delegates included a
former Chief of Defence Staff, a former Chief of Air Staff,
three former foreign ministers, a former Inspector
General of Police, two former senate presidents, a
former SGF, several former ministers, several SANs,
several former governors, professors… Presiding was a
former Chief Justice of Nigeria and a former Minister of
External Affairs.”
He added, “My own upbringing and diplomatic and
scholar’s disposition will not allow me to yield to the
temptation to call Engr Lawal by the name his own
choice of words has reduced him to.”
Continuing, Prof. Akinyemi had said that most of the
delegates, there were people who had paid their dues;
served this country in high and exalted positions, risked
their lives in the civil war and other domestic
insurrections and showed exceptional excellence in the
performance of their duties, obviously more excellence
than Engr Lawal had demonstrated in his one year in
office.”

Professor Akinyemi, however, called out the SGF to get
his facts right in response to the SGF’s comment in the
published interview where he (SGF) said “… everybody in
the committee got N7 million.”
“Come on Mr SGF. You have been in the office that
funded the conference and you have been there for over
a year, and all you need to do is to send for the files to
know that what members were paid is much less than N7
million per head. You do not have to depend on
rumours or ‘dem say."
He however pointed that "Frankly, I will not plead for the
report of the conference to be considered by your
government. Governments come and governments go.
The problems will remain. We will all be judged by
whether we were part of the solution or part of the
problems."

In the same vein, Sen. Sanni who took to his Facebook
page to suggest options to President Buhari said: "Ex-
President Goodluck Jonathan's confab report options for
the President Muhammadu Buhari administration
are: To implement it in full; to implement some of it; to
donate it to libraries; to keep it in Government shelves
and to shred and recycle the hard copies to tissue paper
and keep the soft copies in the National archives."
Sanni, however, did not pinpoint the exact options
President Buhari should take towards restructuring
Nigeria.

www.vanguardngr.com/2016/06/buhari-has-five-options-on-2014-confab-report-says-shehu-sanni/

Buhari does not know any thing about Restructuring, all he knows is Northernization of Nigeria, period.

Professor akinyemi is on point. Buhari does not have an analytical mind. His reasoning is one way. We know intelligence is not his forte. Let's just leave him alone.

Like the prof said "governments come and governments go". Someone will come on board, who will implement the report.

I don't know what Buhari is scared of.