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Yesterday at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, Southwest leaders met with Jonathan and South South leaders, and demanded restructuring of Nigeria based on a new Constitution. This is as even the Gov of Osun led another group in Ibadan that yesterday demanded a new constitution based on weak centre and strong regions based on the pre-1967 arrangement.
In his address which was made available to newsmen at the State House, Abuja, Bishop Bolanle Gbonigi, who led the high-powered SW delegation to Jonthan noted that ‘the vast majority of Nigerians were demanding for a new constitution, which made a national dialogue imperative, saying that the transformation agenda of the administration could not succeed unless it was predicated on a stable and secure polity, with happy and contented citizens’.
With South South leader in support, the South-West leaders used the opportunity to raise the issue of marginalisation of the region in the present administration, though it applauded the effort of Jonathan in supporting the candidacy of Mulikat Adeola-Akande as the speaker of the House of Representatives.
“We appreciate that you threw your weight on the side of gender and ethnic equity by supporting the candidacy of Honourable Mulikat Adeola-Akande. Unfortunately, however, the conflict resolved itself in government order of precedence,” Bishop Gbonigi said.
He added that “much as we are discomfited by this development, we actually sympathise with you, knowing that it was not your wish to have things that way. All the same, we hope that as president, you will use your considerable powers to apply the soothing balm to the understandably hurt sensitivities of our people, to calm the frayed nerves and the increasingly loud murmurs of discontent emanating from them.”
The leaders lamented the meagre presence of Yoruba in key positions in the presidency and the upper cadres of career and political appointments, including the headship of major federal parastatal agencies.
How can SW cry marginalization. They dominate head of civil services in Nigeria. They are either the head or they are assistant or deputy, check it out. They can put a northerner in the noose, this has never been done. The indictment of corrupt a SW person goes no where as they dominate the media and hide the issue out of public discuss. See Bankole and many others, they go the prison and come out on appeal. They stole trillions and nobody talks about is. The SW has the most political power in Nigeria. The forming union from SE-SS-Middle Belt aim to break this strangle hold of the Fulani/Hausa-Yoruba pact it is older than Nigerian history. People are looking back at the history of Kwara state as a guide.