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Nasir El-rufai, Kaduna State Governor, has said the north will benefit most if the country is restructured.

Mr El-rufai made this known on Wednesday while delivering a keynote address at a colloquium in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.

The event was organised to mark the 80th birthday anniversary of Bisi Akande, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

The governor who headed the restructuring committee of the APC said those who opposed restructuring do not have the interest of northerns at heart because if the country is restructured the north would be the biggest beneficiary.

He said the region was ready for the complete restructuring of the polity.

“The coincidence of the mind-set of most of the military leaders being of northern origin must not be confused with that of the ordinary northerner,” El-rufai said.

“I want to state here and now, that not only is the north ready, willing and able to embrace inclusive restructuring of our polity, but to add that those that speak loudly against it represent no one. Most of them have never held elective offices, and therefore do not appreciate that the north with its natural endowments stands to be the biggest beneficiary of restructuring.

“With all sense of responsibility, I believe some Nigerians have made a career and livelihood around restructuring without deep thought, or a clear plan or implementation strategy. For them, it is a tool to alienate rather than convert our compatriots to the nation-building imperative that restructuring offers.

“Rather than the hard graft of solving our governance problems, this group would rather grab headlines and mouth sound-bites at opportunities like this. You can almost sense that this people actually dread restructuring becoming public policy, having succeeded in living off a serious national imperative for so long. We must be mindful of this class of people,” he added.

Since his committe submitted its report to the national leadership of the party in 2017, nothing has been heard about the subject matter except for the recent pledge of Atiku Abubakar, the 2019 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to restructure the country within six months in office if elected president.

Source: https://politicstimesng.com/el-rufai-north-benefit-most-restructuring/

Limitednow:
Source: https://politicstimesng.com/el-rufai-north-benefit-most-restructuring/

Talk is cheap

THEORETICALLY, Governor El-rufai is right. The North has the highest natural resources more than any other region and has the biggest land size.

Nigerian Regions by Natural Resources


South East
◆Abia: Gold, Lead/Zinc, Limestone, Oil/Gas & Salt
◆Anambra: Clay, Glass-Sand, Gypsium, Iron-ore, Lead/Zinc, Lignite, Limestone, Phosphate & Salt
◆Ebonyi: Gold, Lead/Zinc & Salt
◆Enugu: Coal, Lead/Zinc & Limestone
◆Imo: Gypsium, Lead/Zinc, Lignite, Limestone, Marcasite, Oil/Gas, Phosphate & Salt


South West
◆Ekiti: Feldspar, Granite, Kaolin, Syenite & Tatium
Lagos: Oil/Gas, Bitumen, Clay & Glass-sand
◆Ogun: Bitumen, Clay, Feldspar, Gemstone, Kaolin, Limestone & Phosphate
◆Ondo: Bitumen, Clay, Coal, Dimension Stones, Feldspar, Gemstone, Glass-Sand, Granite, Gypsium, Kaolin, Limestone & Oil/Gas
◆Osun: Columbite, Gold, Granite, Talc, Tantalite & Tourmaline
◆Oyo: Aqua Marine, Cassiterite, Clay, Dolomite, Gemstone, Gold, Kaolin, Marble, Silimonite, Talc & Tantalite


SouthSouth
◆Akwa Ibom: Clay, Lead/Zinc, Lignite, Limestone, Oil/Gas, Salt & Uranium
◆Bayelsa: Clay, Gypsium, Lead/Zinc, Lignite, Limestone, Maganese, Oil/Gas & Uranium
◆Cross River: Barite, Lead/Zinc, Lignite, Limestone, Manganese, Oil/Gas, Salt & Uranium
◆Delta: Clay, Glass-sand, Gypsium, Iron-ore, Kaolin, Lignite, Marble & Oil/Gas
◆Edo: Bitumen, Clay Dolomite, Phosphate, Glass-sand, Gold, Gypsium,Iron-ore, Lignite, Limestone, Marble & Oil/Gas
◆Rivers: Clay, Glass-Sand, Lignite, Marble & Oil/Gas


North
◆Abuja: Cassiterite, Clay, Dolomite, Gold, Lead/Zinc, Marble & Tantalite
◆Adamawa: Bentonite, Gypsium, Kaolin & Magnesite
◆Bauchi: Gold, Cassiterite (tine ore), Columbite, Gypsium, Wolfram, Coal, Limestone, Lignite, Iron-ore & Clay
◆Benue: Barite, Clay, Coal, Gemstone, Gypsium, Iron-Ore, Lead/Zinc, Limestone, Marble & Salt
◆Borno: Bentonite, Clay, Diatomite, Gypsium, Hydro-carbon, Kaolin & Limestone
◆Gombe: Gemstone & Gypsium
◆Jigawa: Butyles
◆Kaduna: Amethyst, Aqua Marine, Asbestos, Clay, Flosper, Gemstone, Gold, Graphite, Kaolin, Hyanite, Mica, Rock Crystal, Ruby, Sapphire, Sihnite, Superntinite, Tentalime, Topaz & Tourmaline
◆Kano: Gassiterite, Copper, Gemstone, Glass-sand, Lead/Zinc, Pyrochinre & Tantalite
◆Katsina: Kaolin, Marble & Salt
◆Kebbi: Gold
◆Kogi: Cole, Dolomite, Feldspar, Gypsium, Iron-ore, Kaolin, Marble, Talc & Tantalite
◆Kwara: Cassiterite, Columbite, Feldspar, Gold, Iron-ore, Marble, Mica & Tantalite
◆Nasarawa: Amethyst (Topaz Garnet), Barytex, Barite, Cassirite, Chalcopyrite, Clay, Columbite, Coking Coal, Dolomite/Marble, Feldspar, Galena, Iron-ore, Limstone, Mica, Salt, Sapphire, Talc, Tantalite, Tourmaline Quartz & Zireon
◆Niger: Gold, Lead/Zinc & Talc
◆Plateau: Barite, Bauxite, Betonite, Bismuth, Cassiterite, Clay, Coal, Emeral, Fluoride, Gemstone, Granite, Iron-ore, Kaolin,Lead/Zinc, Marble, Molybdenite, Phrochlore, Salt, Tantalite/Columbite, Tin & Wolfram
◆Sokoto: Clay, Flakes, Gold, Granite, Gypsium, Kaolin, Laterite, Limestone, Phosphate, Potash, Silica Sand & Salt
◆Taraba: Lead/Zinc
◆Yobe: Soda Ash & Tintomite
◆Zamfara: Coal, Cotton & Gold

As you can see, the North has the highest natural resources, followed by SouthSouth, SouthWest, and the South East has the least. So in theory, the North wins. In practicality, the SouthSouth wins because of its huge oil and gas deposits. Futuristically, the North wins because oil and gas will soon be obsolete.

Of course you are ready for restructuring. You and your millions upon millions of illiterate, impoverished Almajiris. We believe you.

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APC should do the needful and stop blabbing

What is this one saying?/

[color=#990000][/color]FTC
EL-Rusua would you STFU...
I regret ever u in 2015. But inshaAllahu u are packing out of Sir Kashim Ibrahim house come May 29....
North go gain for restructuring and una still no wan restructure since tey tey

Very funny speech coming from the midget. Try am make we see who go benefit. Lies everywhere

Goat

Limitednow:
Source: https://politicstimesng.com/el-rufai-north-benefit-most-restructuring/

Then why the delay

Hell Rufai is already Atikulating

Taqqiya at work.

Lie from pity of hell. He is just saying it now for people to vote for APC. Wasn't Buhari that said he doesn't know what us restructuring

true

Why not restructure, lets see

Then lets Restructure the F*****king shithole already

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Which kain of stylish atikulation be did??
So APC has a restructuring committee? but they were saying Atiku restructuring agenda is borne out of hypocrisy and desperation?
Bunch of confused people

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The north will so much suffer if Nigeria is restructured

Emmzy201:
The north will so much suffer if Nigeria is restructured

So are you saying that the North is living off the South?

Delusion of grandeur.

The North that has had the most turn at power and its corridors, with all the concessions that imply, are still the most uneducated, the most diseased, the most poverty ridden, the most violent.

Every regression to the mean Nigeria has witnessed that has turned it worse than conditions in even war torn countries occur in the North.

The North is a blight on Nigeria, and indeed on the world.

Gideon Orkar laid the framework that must be studied and implemented.

El Rufai restructuring will remove Federal Character just to remind you. Do we still go ahead?

chiedu7:
So are you saying that the North is living off the South?

Are u stating a fact or asking a rhetorical question?

True talk

El-rufai! El-rufai!! El-rufai!!!

I had to call your name three times as that's one best way to call a hypocritical person. So because election is less than a month now that's why you're now suddenly for restructuring after you headed the APC's restructuring committee that made a mockery of the very committee you chaired?

What a man, what a party, what a docility!!!

preach that to buhari!... what the F*UCK is he and Co leeches waiting for?...... pathetic hypocrites.

Of course he said it in Ibadan

donaldfafree:
Very funny speech coming from the midget. Try am make we see who go benefit. Lies everywhere

elections don reach na,
APC don remember restructuring.

Agree with elrufai. The northern nigeria has a very big land mass for agric even though they need fertilizer for improvement , it can be achieved by imploring imveators to invest in agriculture. The southern nigeria has crude oil in that they can explore. Now the struggle will be between yoruba and ibo.

Limitednow:
Source: https://politicstimesng.com/el-rufai-north-benefit-most-restructuring/

Northern elites are NEVER speaking or supporting restructuring in Northern Nigeria enclaves. It’s only when they come to the South that they will open their lying mouths to support restructuring

Con-Men.