Addressing journalists in Benin, the chairman of the group.Dr. Dele Oluwatade
,a medical practitioner, in a paper, entitled, “Reengineering Nigeria for a Stable Political Equilibrium”,
said a borrowing nation like Nigeria cannot afford the extravagance of the presidential system of government.
He advocated that Nigeria be restructured into twelve or eight regions with premiers as the heads of each region for easy administration and reduction in the cost of governance.
” The strength of the American presidential system is the federating states, the weakness of Nigeria’s presidential system is in the unitary federalism state, causing political emasculation of economic activities of the nation
“America is ruled by fifty- one heads , but, Nigeria is ruled by one head. California is about half of Nigeria, under one governor,equivalent of eighteen governor in Nigeria, run on political extravagance.
“By American standard, Nigeria should not have more than twelve states, a twelve regions arrangement is good forNigeria saving the twenty four insolvent states and waste.
“Nigeria should be restructured into twelve or eight regions with premiers as the heads of each region for easy administration and reduction in the cost of governance.
“A massive borrowing nation is warming up for awareness on Presidential
style of campaigns and elections, meanwhile, our youths are out of school due to ASSU strike and JAMB is conducting another exam to admit another set of
youths into a locked system, and government is sourcing for four trillion
functional confusion per excellence.
“A nation on borrowing spree, even to pay for “fuel subsidy. We ‘re
borrowing.A compulsorily consumption economy with about 3.2% to tip over
insolvency is organizing an electoral process to waste human and material
resources.organizing an election for a knocked nation.”
He said, President Muhammadu Buhari should constitute a committee to transmute to a prime minister, urging him
to redeem his public image by restructuring Nigeria and thereby kill many birds with one wise political stone.
Oluwatade chided Nigerian politicians,whom he said are living larger than Nigerian economy, while the masses are suffering.
