The Bishop of Calabar Diocese of
Anglican Communion, Bishop Tunde Adeleye, has said that Nigeria was heading
towards irredeemable disaster if restructuring is denied.
Addressing a press conference in
Calabar, the Clergy said, “unless there is restructuring, I fear and dare to
say that we will crash. I am not prophesying any doom but at the rate we are
going, restructuring is the only viable way out.”
He said, “a situation where
people are being oppressed; where those who make the money are being suppressed
and not allowed to have a say on the money they make; at this rate, when the
centre is heavily loaded with money and the States and the local government are
crying for funds, going to Abuja with cap in hands begging, those things will
crush us unless we restructure.
“I believe in true federalism as
a system of government which allows the people at the State and local
government levels to take of certain decisions by themselves and for
themselves. A situation in which Abuja dictates education, dictates health, dictates
the police amongst other things will result in a crash.”
On agitations by IPOB leaders and
some Niger Delta Youths, the clergy said, “I do not believe in secession. We
are better and stronger if we come closely apart. By this I mean Nigeria should
come together, loose in the centre and stronger in states. We should be closely
apart bearing in mind our cultural differences, religious differences, ethnic
differences and other critical and notable differences.”
The Minister believed that
restructuring could address issues of incessant agitations and stop activities
of militants and herdsmen, who, he said, bestride farmers’ farmlands,
destroying crops and killing the farmers at any slightest provocation.
He lamented that the older
generation of Nigerian leaders have failed the nation, saying, “it is the older
generation which have ruined the country; they have destroyed the destiny and
future of this country through corruption. The old brigade is not the ones to
save this country, it is the youths.
“Nigerians youths should forgive
the old brigade for being the problem of this nation, but the youths should get
themselves prepared and positioned. They must make sure they do not learn or
copy anything from the old because there is absolutely nothing to learn from
them. Youths must avoid the mistakes of yesterday’s men,” he appealed.
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