Elder statesman and chieftain of the pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, has stated that Nigerian may cease to exist after 2019.

According to him, Nigeria may fail to exist if its leaders fail to embrace the call for restructuring.

He told Punch that it is obvious that the word ‘restructuring’ irritates northern elites except for few of them like Atiku Abubakar, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida (retd.), Gen. Yakubu Gowon (retd.), Col. Umar, etc who have been clamouring for it.

“Of course, without restructuring, there might be no Nigeria. It’s as clear as that. I often say that the word restructuring came into our political lexicon after the military coup. Why? When the military came, they suspended the constitution and then created one-line government.

“When they wanted us to return to civilian regime, they didn’t want us to have it under that constitution. In 1993, Abacha made that fraudulent document (constitution), he died and Abdulsalami Abubakar sustained it which was handed over to Obasanjo in 1999. Yet, they are saying we have to live together on the constitution made by the North.

Asked what does Nigerians stands if the country is restructured, he said, “I emphasise arbitrarily. I give you an example. Lagos and Kano had identical population. The military created Jigawa from Kano and then created local governments so much so that from the two states you have over 70 local governments. Lagos still has 20 LGAs. This is one of the inequities in this constitution that the opposition to restructuring wants us to retain.

“There are a lot of bad things in this constitution. We don’t want violence, so let’s sit down together and talk. The military men changed our structure and laid down strange conditions for distributing our revenue, like using land mass, whether productive or not.

“With what is in this constitution now, the North is contributing £1 and they are collecting £1,000. That would be the sum total of the situation. They contribute N1 but they are taking N20,000. They used all the conditions that favour them as the basis for distributing the allocation they don’t contribute to. These are the injustices. You see why the South opposing this constitution. And they are doing that because of the crude oil. Let them refute it.

“They can’t counter it other than to be politically correct because their leader doesn’t want it. And I accuse Buhari that it is because his people are the beneficiaries, that is why he is defending it. They want it to continue, but it won’t continue. And we are in this position again today because Asiwaju Bola Tinubu led the Yoruba into an alliance with APC. At 89, what else am I looking for? I’m only sorry for your generation. When people should do something positive, they are playing with words because they want to cheat you.

“I want you to emphasise that the reluctance is because they want the country to separate or they want to impose unity on us, which I call the unity of the horse and the rider. The North would be the rider and the South the horse. We say no, it will not happen. For a democracy that would work, we need to go back to the constitution we had at independence, which our founding fathers gave us. How can you be cheating me and you want me to keep quiet?”



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God bless you our patriarch, I hope other Yoruba elites will see the patriotism in you and cue up.
Nigeria at the moment is just a time bomb waiting to explode if care is not taken and the watch word to save this avoidable crisis is "restructuring" and if not then
Biafra is fast approaching.

It's seems restructuring is running out of time, disintegration might be inevitable after this period.

A naghi a gwa onye ochi nti n'agha esula.

The constitution we currently run was written by few Northern military men. And so it's skewed to favour north.

Will not be favourably disposed to restructuring? Hell no. It won't happen without a fight so . The only way to make them bow is for South to avoid voting in 2019.

Seat at home.

The election will hold but will lack legitimacy .
Nigeria must be restructured.

Lalasticlala where you dey

I believe restructuring means 100% control of a state's resources(revenue), that way everybody is forced to actually start looking inwards and to cross-check, states that function in that way with huge natural resources includes Canada. I made a video in regards to Nigeria's current landscape.It"s a video on restructuring the nation and why it's resurgent now. I hope to borrow a few minutes of your attention please
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7SKI7vL7SY . I address how we got here and what's wrong with the Nation at this point in time.

The Yoruba Muslims will sopn come to attack this their elder.

No to restructuring. Let us split. That is the only solution.

You should first blame the south for killing the founding father Prime Minister Sir Abubakar and abolishing the old system. You led us in to this mess.

Anything that happen to you might be a divine punishment for Balewa and co blood.

B4 some people start quoting me that it is Igbo not Yoruba. Hold on. We are talking of south and north, because he himself address the entire north.

The geographical entity referred to as Nigeria has since ceased to exist and the implosion is all we await next.