Jega spoke yesterday in Keffi, as a guest lecturer at the Fourth Public Lecture Series of Nasarawa State University Keffi with the topic “Restructuring the Nigerian Federation: Challenges and Prospects” organised by the institution.
According to him, both the executive and legislative arms of government need to gather the courage and have the political will to work together and bring critical stakeholders from all strata in order to begin to actualise restructuring before 2023 general elections.He said perceived injustices in the current federal system in Nigeria have to be addressed as soon as possible to enable Nigeria and Nigerians, get the requisite stability and peaceful coexistence to accelerate development.
“In spite of the challenges, the prospects of Nigeria are not as hopeless as some would assume them to be. Nigeria needs stability and increased legitimacy for elected officials in governance; needs good governance, better nurtured and deepened democratic development; and needs economic growth and socioeconomic development.”
“For all these, better management of ethno-religious diversity on the basis of rule of law, justice, equity and equality of opportunity, is a necessary precondition. That is what a federal arrangement is meant to ensure, but is not what the current federal structure and practice of federalism in Nigeria provides” he said.
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