ModsAreMad:
Restructuring Nigeria won't solve Nigeria's problem.....

Name....Ibrahim Ganduje

Region/Tribe.....Northerner

attackgat:

As soon as the find Oil in the North, the tune will change

ModsAreMad:
Restructuring Nigeria won't solve Nigeria's problem.....

Name....Ibrahim Ganduje

Region/Tribe.....Northerner

umar745:


Dude, I think you mean Abdullahi Ganduje. Ibrahim Ganduje is someone else.

Back to the subject, yeah we should restructure Nigeria

ModsAreMad:
Restructuring Nigeria won't solve Nigeria's problem.....

Name....Ibrahim Ganduje

Region/Tribe.....Northerner

ModsAreMad:
[s]Restructuring Nigeria won't solve Nigeria's problem.....
Name....Ibrahim Ganduje
Region/Tribe.....Northerner[/s]

malton:
Like I said on another thread,

Soon as they lost power at the top, they now clamor for a devolution of power so that they can continue their evil deeds at the local levels with no thought or conscience.

If you cannot do any good with the little power you have, what more can you achieve with an overwhelming one?

Pesin wey go help no dey wait until him make one million before him dash beggar hundred naira. Because the instant you make that money, na car levels, beggar no go take eye see you again.

I'm not against fiscal federalism of any sort, as it wouldn'thave any impacts on me personally. But truth be told, it's more of the same.

Soon as powers get devolved from the center, these self-interested individuals have the tendencies to make it seem farther from the populace than it ever was. Talk about things changing right before your eyes.

When even your own local government chairman becomes hard to reach soon as he becomes and the LG was intended to be the government closest to the people.

Or is it not the exact same hawkish people that will continue leading the federating units? These people are in it for their own gains, nothing more. I'd rather have one emperor than have six devouring all at once, not to mention 36.

Just give them enough powers to get by.

aventura:
you are not making any sense. Stop playing the devil's advocate. It's either you are for or against. Then state the reasons why.

QuotaSystem:


Regionalism is Nigeria's problem... Unitary structure with power at the centre is better...

Name....Aguiyi Ironsi

Region/Tribe...Easterner


An Ibo man/Easterner/Southerner destroyed the same regional structure when he was in power that Easterners are now begging for.

So you now want to restructure back to regionalism as you've been kicked out from the centre and are no longer near the corridors of power?

I ask; Restructure to fit whom? Jokers.

QuotaSystem:


Regionalism is Nigeria's problem... Unitary structure with power at the centre is better...

Name....Aguiyi Ironsi

Region/Tribe...Easterner


An Ibo man/Easterner/Southerner destroyed the same regional structure when he was in power that Easterners are now begging for.

So you now want to restructure back to regionalism as you've been kicked out from the centre and are no longer near the corridors of power?

I ask; Restructure to fit whom? Jokers.

malton:

I intended that for only those with brains to understand.

attackgat:


Ironsi centralised Government [s]but he did not tamper with regions. If Gowon had left the four regions the way he met it, Nigeria would have reverted back to true federalism whenever civilians came back to power. By abolishing the regions and creating states, Gowon made it much harder for true federalism to return.[/s]

QuotaSystem:


That is the only relevant point and I'm grateful for your honesty in admitting it.

So why do the Easterners now want government to be decentralised? What was the structure before the centralization and why did Ironsi decide to centralize?

Answer these questions honestly and you will understand why Easterners/Southerners call for restructuring cannot be taken seriously.

aventura:
you are very correct in your assertion of the easterner introducing the current system we practice, but wrong on every other thing. You see, the unitary system as the name implies was to breed and foster amongst the populace. A system where a northerner being qualified can take up existing position in the south and vice versa. But then, it was seen as a device to impoverish the north. People (northerners) complained of qualified eastern workers as if education was exclusive to the easterner. If easterners are taking up all the positions in the north as was the rhetoric of the Sarduana, then th northerners should go down south, get a qualification and occupy south. This system was to abolish the so called Federal charcater and your moniker Quotasytem. This two things can never be found in a country that wants to move forward. It rendered the system useless.

Now let me tell you my friend, this system works for only the political elite. It doesn't work for the people. If you claim that the calls for restructuring is because the easterners were "kicked" out of the centre, then what have you done with the centre that you have occupied for 50 years. It's not like the north was developed to be like Dubai or Qatar, you still have the highest ratio of impoverished people in the country; that's what the system does to you.

Is it not a shame that Kano state with it's humongous population cannot internally generate revenue to compare with states like Ogun which is like half of it's population?

That is what the system does to you. If the system should work the Federal character and Quotasystem should be abolished as it does no one any good.


Shalom......

QuotaSystem:


Regionalism is Nigeria's problem... Unitary structure with power at the centre is better...

Name....Aguiyi Ironsi

Region/Tribe...Easterner


An Ibo man/Easterner/Southerner destroyed the same regional structure when he was in power that Easterners are now begging for.

So you now want to restructure back to regionalism as you've been kicked out from the centre and are no longer near the corridors of power?

I ask; Restructure to fit whom? Jokers.

attackgat:


[s]
That's why I told you to go and learn Nigerian history well before you start discussing politics of yesteryears.

Never say Ironsi destroyed the regions, he did not. Gowon did that.

As for decentralisation, it was already done in Aburi. It was signed and sealed.

Then Gowon and his fellow Norherners were not happy with it and abolished the regions, created States and centralised Government far more than Ironsi did[/s].

aventura:
you are very correct in your assertion of the easterner introducing the current system we practice,

attackgat:

Ironsi centralised Government but he did not tamper with regions. If Gowon had left the four regions the way he met it, Nigeria would have reverted back to true federalism whenever civilians came back to power. By abolishing the regions and creating states, Gowon made it much harder for true federalism to return.

RedTarantula:


You said we now want regionalism because we've been kicked out of the center but we were never there.

It was The Niger Delta that was there and not the SE.

Get your facts right oga.