Nigeria as currently constituted is an entity that is rooted in corruption, impunity and injustice and thus must be reconstituted, a former vice-president said on Monday.

Atiku Abubakar, who served under former President Olusegun Obasanjo from 1999-2007, said at a forum in Abuja that the current system is the bane of Nigeria and not the individuals running it.

“Political and civic leaders from across the country must come together, discuss, negotiate and make the necessary compromises and sacrifices needed to restructure our federation to make us a stronger, more united, productive, and competitive country,” Mr. Atiku said while expanding on a paper titled: “Nigerian Federalism: Continuing Quest for Stability and Nation-Building.”

Mr. Atiku has been at the forefront of renewed calls for a reconstituted Nigeria since the beginning of the year.

In June, he used his remarks at a book launch, also in Abuja, to call for a more federal system which would put to rest the disparate yearnings of Nigerians from all sections of the country.

Mr. Atiku said there’s a perennial cry of marginalisation from every section of the country, a situation, he said, was caused by the flaw in the country’s constitution.

“No section of this country can claim correctly that its people are better served by the current structure of our federation. When we were not dependent on oil revenues and when the federating units had greater autonomy of action and were largely responsible for their affairs, they, that is our regional governments, did not owe workers their salaries for several months.

“They did not shut down schools and universities for several months because of teacher strikes and inadequate funding. Take a look at the industries that the regional governments established and ran and the quality of schools that they established, and see if you can see a state government or a group of state governments that have bested them since the emergence of our unitary federalism.

“And also ask yourself which of those establishments taken over or established by the federal government since, has performed as well as they did under our pre-1966 federal system.”

The former vice president said Abuja should be prepared and willing to relinquish some of its powers over the remaining 36 federating units.

This call, Mr. Atiku said, does not mean a call for a break up of Nigeria, but only a call for the imposition of a system where transparency, efficiency and equity will prevail.

“National unity does not mean the absence of disagreement or agitations. In fact disagreements and peaceful agitations indicate vibrant and living relationships,” Mr. Atiku said. “The key to making national progress is to manage those disagreements in peaceful and mature ways.”

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/more-news/217744-nigeria-not-working-existence-must-renegotiated-atiku.html

politicians..eh they will sing a different tone immediately they grab power

True Federalism

See pot calling kettle black. Anyway, I didn't read dat long tin

Thanks to corrupt dingbats like you. Mr atiku!

Look who is talking

These idiots insult our intelligence every day.

When you talk about corruption in Nigeria, Atiku's name tops the list.

g

Sir.

This system, system system that everybody keeps blaming for corruption... Please is it robots that are running the system?

And robots cannot act outside the programming that human beings put in it.

Haba!

They keep behaving like the waec dudes of the past that keep threatening us that it was "COMPUTERS" that marked our answer sheets.



You were path of the government (or system) that kept blaming the military for 8years and it took 8years to realize we were being duped.

You will NEVER BECOME PRESIDENT OF THIS COUNTRY.

Nairaland, take note.

OP u mean Atiku actually talk about curruption??

Hear him talking asif he is not one of the corrupt roots

nd u were part of it

You mean??

Wonders shall never end. See Atiku sef forming anti corruption. And some people who claim they hate fulani dominance has already fallen yakata for Atiku.

Just because of small toasting

Chai!


I can't believe a Grand-Patron of corruption still has the effrontery, guts, zeal and will to utter such statements.


The world is definitely coming to an end.


So shameful!

This so called politicians no get same at all, zilch... Is he Atiku not part of the problem we are facing as a country.

ok

As if you are not part of the corruption.

Please my signature 4 ur goats

when devil starts calling satan a 'wicked lucifer',definitely,the devil is having mental problem

He should know, as he is a beneficiary of the corrupt system from his days as a customs boss.

If he could get the much he got from being in that position at NCS, up till he left as the vice president, then it doesn't take much to see the reason he has been hell bent on becoming president.

Governance in Nigeria is structured such that it greatly appeals to the corrupt and the depraved. Its a system that will make an upright man throw away his integrity and his conscience.

Is Atiku trying to tell us that his mission is to reform the country, just as his older brother, Bubu promised us? He's been talking about true federalism because he knows that's what reasonable people want to hear, not because he wants to implement it. Like his predecessors, he is just hungry for power and the illicit enrichment that he can get from it.

Na today?

tobishawn:

Nigeria as currently constituted is an entity that is rooted in corruption, impunity and injustice and thus must be reconstituted, a former vice-president said on Monday.

Atiku Abubakar, who served under former President Olusegun Obasanjo from 1999-2007, said at a forum in Abuja that the current system is the bane of Nigeria and not the individuals running it.

“Political and civic leaders from across the country must come together, discuss, negotiate and make the necessary compromises and sacrifices needed to restructure our federation to make us a stronger, more united, productive, and competitive country,” Mr. Atiku said while expanding on a paper titled: “Nigerian Federalism: Continuing Quest for Stability and Nation-Building.”

Mr. Atiku has been at the forefront of renewed calls for a reconstituted Nigeria since the beginning of the year.

In June, he used his remarks at a book launch, also in Abuja, to call for a more federal system which would put to rest the disparate yearnings of Nigerians from all sections of the country.

Mr. Atiku said there’s a perennial cry of marginalisation from every section of the country, a situation, he said, was caused by the flaw in the country’s constitution.

“No section of this country can claim correctly that its people are better served by the current structure of our federation. When we were not dependent on oil revenues and when the federating units had greater autonomy of action and were largely responsible for their affairs, they, that is our regional governments, did not owe workers their salaries for several months.

“They did not shut down schools and universities for several months because of teacher strikes and inadequate funding. Take a look at the industries that the regional governments established and ran and the quality of schools that they established, and see if you can see a state government or a group of state governments that have bested them since the emergence of our unitary federalism.

“And also ask yourself which of those establishments taken over or established by the federal government since, has performed as well as they did under our pre-1966 federal system.”

The former vice president said Abuja should be prepared and willing to relinquish some of its powers over the remaining 36 federating units.

This call, Mr. Atiku said, does not mean a call for a break up of Nigeria, but only a call for the imposition of a system where transparency, efficiency and equity will prevail.

“National unity does not mean the absence of disagreement or agitations. In fact disagreements and peaceful agitations indicate vibrant and living relationships,” Mr. Atiku said. “The key to making national progress is to manage those disagreements in peaceful and mature ways.”

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/more-news/217744-nigeria-not-working-existence-must-renegotiated-atiku.html

We know that one....and you are a major part of it

SMH
For a baba in the game to be pointing fingers, then know that the country is

Chief corruption officer, Atiku Abubakar saying that Nigeria is corrupt.

He has become a saint over night because of his presidential ambition.

Nah wa ooooooo, even corruption him self they talk this kine thing. Abeg give him one bucket full of slaps he needs it, and somebody here will now say I should vote for him for president how nah, do you no how much he has? Have you seen his house before?

when they need power everybody forms saint

and you became a billionaire and built a university with civil service money?! Nigerians glorify ill wealth and Shaun hardwork, people like this should be behind bars. but wetin i know, sai atiku