*Calls for implementation of Jonathan’s confab report
By; BAYO AKAMO Ibadan
A Yoruba socio – cultural group, Council Of Yoruba Elders (CYE) today, said that President Bola Tinubu and former President Muhammadu Buhari should be blamed for the current hardships in Nigeria
CYE in a statement tagged, “The Practical Begining Of The Journey To The Restructuring Of Nigeria” signed by it’s Secretary General, Dr. Victor Taiwo, also renewed clamour for the excavation and implementation of the ex President Goodluck Jonathan organised 2014 Constitutional Conference report.
In the statement, the group accused the ex- President Muhammadu Buhari of “ineptitude at governance which allowed for massive, unrestricted, brazen, boundless plundering of the economy from the Olympian height to the depth of Erebus right under his nose by virtually all his aides and appointees with all impunity and without the lifting of a berating finger.”
CYE alleged in the statement that “the two leaders did not stop at the total plundering of the reserves of the country, they went further to mortgage the future of the citizens of the country and the generations yet unborn via lunatic indebtedness which are 40 years ahead of us staking our yet untapped resources.”
The Yoruba group also took a swipe at President Bola Tinubu for hastily removing fuel subsidy without proper research which compelled the prices of petroleum products to jump up by over 300%, lamenting that since the announcement of the removal of fuel subsidy during his inauguration, the country has slumped into economic crises with the loop effect circulating around and percolating through all commercial activities which transformed into hyper-inflation, currency devaluation, resurgence of insecurity and other vices
On the the 2014 CONFAB by the government of former President Goodluck Jonathan but which was ignominiously swept under the carpet by the government of President Muhammadu Buhari, CYE demanded an appraisal and adoption of the report in the interest of the country.
According to CYE, it has put in place a body known as New Nigeria Movement comprising leaders drawn from across the country with a focus on the pursuit of an Independent National Conference
“We are practically out to instigate a serious conversation in the socio-political sphere of Nigeria such as will generate the steam to ignite all the geographical zones of this country into coming to terms with stark reality and beginning to chart new courses for the respective nationalities of the country.” It said
CYE added, ” Today Nigeria’s general structures have collapsed like a pack of cards. The country is fast being driven to a cul-de-sac, a grand halt. Today nothing is practically working in Nigeria”.
” The citizens are currently battling with the acute menace of starvation, hyper-inflation, naira currency floating, unemployment, collapse of industries, education coma, health jaundice, electricity flight, kidnapping, ritual killings, armed robbery, insecurity and general poverty in the land. And come to think of it, there seems to be no hope in the horizon.”
It then recommended two modalities of restructuring namely, national and internal restructuring.The national restructuring, it said will focus on galvanizing people from the six geo-political zones of the country, put in place a national outfit to organize an Independent National Conference, excavate the 2014 CONFAB report and thoroughly study the content to see if it can guarantee our further working relationship in the country or else we fashion out another feasibility study.
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