A national leader of the ruling All
Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has said restructuring will
bring much needed balance to the country.
The former Lagos State governor, however, said he was against the split-up of the country.
Tinubu’s assertion followed repeated
pronouncements by President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice-President Yemi
Osinbajo that Nigeria’s unity is settled and not open to negotiation.
Tinubu, who was the keynote speaker at
the annual dinner of the King’s College Old Boys’ Association, on
Saturday, described Nigeria as a nation that had not sufficiently
defined its governance.
The APC leader said, “We are like the
bewildered couple who has got their marriage licence after a lavish
wedding; yet neither of them really understands the meaning of marriage
or their roles as husband and wife in it.
“Legally, they are married but
functionally, their union is a crippled one. This couple will be at
loggerheads until somehow they forge an agreement on what type of home
they want and what are their respective duties in making that home come
into existence.
“It is a rather curious lapse that a
nation with such diversity as ours has not taken the time to give our
legal marriage its proper functional underpinning. In other words, we
all lined up to call ourselves Nigerians without gathering to discuss
what it meant.
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