The Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) has faulted Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo’s recent comments on restructuring, stating that no leader can “address the grievances of the Niger Deltans except true structural reformation of the country”.
While addressing the Nigerian community in USA, Osinbajo had said Nigeria’s problem is leadership, not restructuring.
However, in a statement, the Ijaw Youth Council said it could not understand the vice-president’s position on restructuring, noting that “Nigeria’s teething problems are feathered by the internal colonialism of indigenous Nigerians by the major tribes as well as the economic strangulations of the components states”.
Citing various peculiarities of the country that support the calls for restructuring, the council stated that Osinbajo should rather “convince his boss to accept the clamour for true federalism”, noting that…
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