The National Organising Secretary of the pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, Chief Kole Omololu, during an interview with The Punch, shared his thoughts on the current crisis bedevilling the group, Nigeria , among other issues....CONTINUE READING THE FULL ARTICLE>>>
While reacting to Afenifere’s constant call for the restructuring of the country, and that since Tinubu became the President, Afenifere has not reminded him of restructuring like the days of Buhari.
Omololu said that he is concerned a little that this government of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, will not take restructuring seriously.
He said, “I will say that is their direction. Let us remember that they are the ones who included restructuring in the APC manifesto, and then we heard that President (Muhammadu) Buhari said they were not going to touch it because it was Afenifere’s manifesto, and that Asiwaju and his people were pushing it.”
He said that if that is true, which he is looking at a strategic government, the way the president will handle restructuring will not be the way he wants it. And that maybe the President wants an incremental restructuring in some area first before a statutory restructuring.
Further talking, he said, “When I say statutory, it has to have legislative backing. In the 2014 confab, I think the President was told to push it to the National Assembly (NASS) for the benefit of what is called restructuring or rearrangement.
I think a lot of people are taking the word ‘restructuring’ as a negative illustration. It is just grammar we are talking about rearrangement of things to work better…CONTINUE READING>>
