Speaking at a public lecture to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Arewa House, held in Kaduna on Saturday, the governor maintained that restructuring the country is in the best interest of ensuring sustainable development.

El-Rufai, who cited the 2018 recommendations of the APC committee on restructuring, noted that there was a need to reorganise the country’s constitutional framework in order to give states more control over certain resources.

The focus of the APC committee, which was set up in 2017 and chaired by el-Rufai, was to establish the party’s position on restructuring in line with ensuring that all Nigerians benefit from true federalism.

Under the proposed restructured framework, el-Rufai explained that states would have more control over the police, oil and gas resources, minerals, correctional facilities, stamp duties, registration of business names, among others.

“I am not aware of any significant constituency that is against the idea that states should exercise consequential powers, assume more responsibilities and control resources to enable them deliver better outcomes for those they govern. This will empower state governments to cease passing the buck to the president and the federal government when most of the problems our citizens face daily as a nation are, and can be solved by improved and focused governance at the states’ levels,” he said.

“It is time to make this sort of well-defined restructuring work, for the benefit of the peoples of this country.

“The report of our APC true federalism committee puts in one place the recommendations, and the legislative amendments to give life to a restructured polity. I therefore call on our federal legislators and the national assembly ad hoc committee on constitutional review to take advantage of our report and initiate the constitutional and legislative amendments in either a piece-meal or comprehensive manner without further delay.

“We, therefore, have no excuse not to seize this moment and do the heavy lifting for our country and our people. It is in our hands to make the structures, laws and constitutional arrangements in our country conducive to modern governance that will ensure our nation thrives in the 21st century.”

TecM0:
El Rufai gave a wonderful restructuring idea with his fellow Governors in 2018 but what many still fail to understand is that only the National Assembly can restructure our constitution

No President can do it, no Governor has powers to do it

TecM0:
El Rufai gave a wonderful restructuring idea with his fellow Governors in 2018 but what many still fail to understand is that only the National Assembly can restructure our constitution

No President can do it, no Governor has powers to do it

TecM0:
El Rufai gave a wonderful restructuring idea with his fellow Governors in 2018 but what many still fail to understand is that only the National Assembly can restructure our constitution

No President can do it, no Governor has powers to do it

DrGoodman:


When Bukola Saraki and Dogara were heading the national assembly, we blamed PDP, now we have hand picked APC rubber stamp assembly, can we now see its Buharri inefficiency and body language that has been spoiling things?

TecM0:
El Rufai gave a wonderful restructuring idea with his fellow Governors in 2018 but what many still fail to understand is that only the National Assembly can restructure our constitution

No President can do it, no Governor has powers to do it

OfficialAwol:


And unfortunately your lords and saviours have rendered the National Assembly into an appendage of the executive.

That they are not talking restructuring is because your lord in Aso Rock has no agenda to restructure.

Besides have your northern saviours understood what the meaning of restructuring is now?

And go reply me in the Jos thread except you've ran away like it's characteristic of you guys

Igbochief001:

Na his recommendations won't work ...we need 6 zones ...let everybody decide which zones they want to be part of ....the states as we have them today can't still function well ..most are mini Nigeria ....kogi ,kwara , kaduna , bauchi, gombe , taraba , rivers , Delta ,Niger , jos

Southern kaduna has no business being in north west , Yorubas have no business being in north central , some part of Niger have no business being in north central,
Oyigbo ,etche , asaba , egebema , omuma have no business being in south south
Same with Igbos in benue and kogi

Let's have 6 zones ..let each zone create as many Provence as they wish in the structure that would fit them

Election should be done by number of zones u win ...u only need to win 4 zones to be president
Number of voters in each zone done really matter ...

TecM0:



Speaking of Lord and saviour

Nigerians have just one slaves and the tribe missing in the picture below at the council of state even as a majority ethnic group are our slaves


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OfficialAwol:


You have OBJ and Shonekan sitting at Council of state yet you had to form Amotekun to arrest the raping of your daughters, wives and mothers?

Olu Falae was already made a perpetual wailer with constant burning of his farms.

The daughter to the president of a whole Afenifere was kidnapped and killed and y'all had your tails in between your legs.

Are you now clear who the slave is?

TecM0:



Basically moving back to our initial regionalism Constitution and parliamentary system


Not a bad idea but I think Many states that now enjoy autonomy won't like to go back to regions that boss them over, I don't see Anambra going back under Enugu

TecM0:



2014 national confab failed because from the onset National Assembly who makes and amend National Laws rejected it, and Jonathan can't make laws as we are not in military regime


Components of restructuring is very simple

*Devolution of power: exclusive and concurrent list must be reviewed in the Constitution giving state more responsibility like police, solid minerals, and many more, only the National Assembly can legislate on that

DrGoodman:


We are not talking national confab here. We Are Talking About The 9th Assembly lack of Interest in initiating The Legislation For The Restructuring. I am not here to take lectures from you.

TecM0:



What exactly do Ibos have to defend them after 60 years of independence except imaginary Biafra Secret Service


Lol

OfficialAwol:


You have OBJ and Shonekan sitting at Council of state yet you had to form Amotekun to arrest the raping of your daughters, wives and mothers?

Olu Falae was already made a perpetual wailer with constant burning of his farms.

The daughter to the president of a whole Afenifere was kidnapped and killed and y'all had your tails in between your legs.

Are you now clear who the slave is?

content208:
I congratulate the APC for developing a new deceptive slang to deceive people for 2023. All they need to do is to promise Restructure.

Their campaign slogan will be Restructure 2023. And Nigerians will forget that APC is a party of recurrent failure and will still vote for them come 2023.

And after 4 years, the APC will then look for another lie to cover up its failure to restructure and Lie Mohammed will declare that "we have technically restructured Nigeria". Then you will still be deceived to vote for him again for 2027.

Weh done o, dear Easily Deceived Nigerians.

Mokason288:
Don’t allow this controversial midget from HELL deceive you... he is only interested in 2023

No Northerner supports restructuring Ideas because they know HUNGER will finish their people

I hope I made sense

KosiGee:



This is uncalled for. I don’t know your intentions but whether it’s banter, trolling or outright provocation. This is not necessary.