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Chief Edwin Clark has insisted that
restructuring is the solution to Nigeria’s
problem and has also suggested that
states that are not viable should be
dissolved.
According to report, the Niger Delta
chieftain in a press conference on
Wednesday, September 27 also lashed
out at the Nigeria National Petroleum
Corporation over recent appointments.
Clark said a situation where the North
corners 36 positions out of 55 as against
19 for the entire South is not acceptable
and called on President Muhammadu
Buhari to correct this lop-sidedness.
He said: “When we restructure this
country, you look at what you produce
in your area. What is going on today is
very very bad. It is not good enough,
where people leave their states to Abuja
to collect money without knowing where
that money comes from. They don’t want
to look back.
”In our last constitutional conference,
we said that five per cent of our fund
should be devoted to exploring other
mineral resources.
“Tell me one state in this country that
can pay the salaries of their staff. Is it
not a shame? Is that a country? where
states go to beg for money and at the
end, he who pays the piper, dictates the
tunes. So you are making the Federal
Government more powerful. That is why
devolution of powers is very very
necessary.
“But let us have a restructuring of this
country. So that I know what is been
produced in my area, you know what is
been produced in your area so therefore
if your state is not viable continuously
dissolve it, join other people. We cannot
continue like this. Work for twelve
months, working and have no pay.
Nobody will take it that is not a country,
we are not running.
“When people are talking about
restructuring they know what they are
talking about. We must restructure this
country. And I am happy that everybody
is now talking about restructuring. We
are not talking restructuring to make
some people our enemies or their
enemies. Restructuring has been going
on since 1945 in this country.
“From Richard constitution to
Macpherson constitution to Littleton
constitution to independence even during
the military, Constituent assemblies were
held all for restructuring. Let them
create a better Nigeria for all of us, for
our children in particular.”
The October 1 quit notice issued to the
Hausas and Yorubas in the Niger Delta
region of the country was withdrawn by
the Coalition of Niger Delta Agitators.
This is as a factional group, Pan Niger
Delta Peoples Congress (PNDPC), has
warned that the Pan Niger Delta Forum
(PANDEF) led by Chief Edwin Clark has
lost the mandate to speak for the people
of the region.
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