A section in the South West Region of Nigeria has vowed that without restructuring Nigeria, there will not be presidential election in 2023, stressing that any Yoruba individual nursing the ambition to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari without restructuring is wasting his or her time.
The President of Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, who stated this during an interview with City People said that that there would not be elections in 2023 without the adoption of the restructuring of the federal system
Adebanjo appealed to Nigerians to persuade the National leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to prevail on President Buhari to urgently restructure the country to save it from imminent collapse.
According to him, “The Head of State is too illiterate to understand good leadership. You have to change this government to be effective, no matter the economic or political programme, without good leadership, the country cannot move forward. You can only talk to somebody who understands your language and it is unfortunate that we have a President who is not as educated as presently required for the country. For us to achieve progress and development in Nigeria, those who know Tinubu and all the Yoruba in APC should go and beg them to convince and pressurise the president to restructure this country now. Until that is done, we are doomed”.
Speaking on the nation’s constitution, the elder statesman urged that the 1999 Constitution should be jettisoned saying that it is the root of the nation’s problem.
“The 1999 Constitution encourages indolence, lack of creativity, greed, wanton struggle for positions in the centre and an attitude of begging for monthly allocations from the Federal Government. Our constitution is the greatest problem of Nigeria. The operation of the constitution is expensive with its attendance over-concentration of power at the centre, thereby rendering the states and the local governments impotent unlike what obtained under the 1960 and 1963 parliamentary constitution”, he explained.
