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Nigeria is at crossroads, we need restructuring – Atiku Abubakar

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Thu, 27 Apr 2017 || Nigeria,

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on Thursday joined the calls for restructuring of the country to promote unity and economic development.

In a speech he delivered at the public presentation of the Daily Stream newspaper, at the Banquet Hall, Nigeria Airforce Conference Centre, Kado, Abuja on Thursday, Abubakar said Nigeria is at crossroads and that only profound changes in the political structure of the country can bring about the desired peace and prosperity.

Abubakar called for the restructuring of Nigeria’s political, administrative and political architecture to free resources that would otherwise go to unviable ventures and projects.

”The country is truly at a crossroads, and things are made worse by the cocktail of economic, social, political and problems which we have had to contend with, and which add to the abysmally low estimation of our country even by its own citizens.

”However, I am not here just to lament over the sad and unenviable state of affairs in Nigeria. I firmly believe in the viability of the Nigerian Project, I remain unshaken and completely persuaded that we can eventually change the story of Nigeria for good by collectively making Nigeria a productive, prosperous, peaceful and united nation whose people are happy and contented and one that is able to really lead Africa and assume a pride of place in the comity of nations.

”But to achieve that, we must elevate and steer conversation away from empty rhetoric and platitudes. We must instigate and see to the full and faithful implementation of profound changes in the political structure, organization, functions and performance of state, and a radical re-organization of government, its organs and personnel, he harped.