A former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Bisi Akande, has stated that minority Fulani rulers are being perceived to be manipulating the North to rule Nigeria since independence.


He said that people understood minority Fulani rulers to be manipulating the North to rule Nigeria through “Islamic emirate system since two centuries ago.”
Akande said this while delivering a paper titled “Devolution of Powers and National Restructuring” over the weekend at the APC-USA Second Annual Convention in Washington DC.
The former Governor of Osun State also said restructuring was a herculean task for all Nigerians.
According to Akande: “The North is a largely Hausa-speaking people traditionally mix-bred and assimilated with and governed by minority Fulani rulers through Islamic emirate system since two centuries ago.

” The North has been amalgamated with the South in-law and in fact since a century ago. And, presumably, the Fulani has been perceived to be manipulating the North to rule Nigeria since independence.


“Even if one does not like the minority Fulani rulers of the North for being hegemonic in characteristics, can one separate them from the original majority Hausa-speaking people of the same North?

“Unless one was ready for another civil war, could one ostracise the whole North in the political considerations of the country.”

Akande said it was within that “context that some of them who were not ready to wait for another civil war to effect a geo-political restructuring of the country decided to go ahead with the APC arrangement, while our opponents are left behind to assume a loud coarse noise on mere sloganeering-restructuring- without any clear definition or a peaceful workable strategy.”
The former APC chairman also said “constitutional amendments or not, Nigerians have begun to see themselves as belonging to geo-political zones-North-western, North-eastern, North-central, South-western, South-eastern and South-southern zones.”
Akande insisted that the “South-west, on its own, had moved further to create a Development Agenda Commission for Western Nigeria, DAWN Commission, to conduct research to generate pieces of advisory information for the benefit of the each of the South-western state governments on integrated development programmes.”
He stressed that as a “first step, the people of these South-western states are trying to key into the APC to back up the possibility of their governments to speak with one political voice, using one manifesto under one political party.”
The APC chieftain recommended this initiative to other geo-political zones, saying it was an “experiment worthy of encouragement and emulation for the strengthening of a federal political attitude towards physical and social development within each zone.”
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As much as i am going to vote Atiku, i know restructuring won't be easy

Bisi Akande is still alive??

I thought he has joined his ancestors long ago.

This people sef........

Just waking up.......?? Granpa......u and Tinubu are the main Slaves tha Fulanis are riding to conquer Yoruba nation.

Thank God at least u witness the brutality of their reign in ya lifetime

This APC man is just waking up to reality ....

Nigeria with all the Brains , been ruled by fulanis?

Smh

Grand pa is shaking tables
I hope it doesn't bury their useless party

Don't be surprise seeing them use restructuring to campaign.. After Nnamdi Kanu went missing the first time, the whole talk about restructuring died with his disappearance. Nnamdi Kanu has resurfaced now, they are beginning to have the liver to speak against their masters.

Hmmm!

For those that wont read, he is saying each zone should try to have one political voice through a single party of their choice, so as to drive towards desire restructuring goals.

Airforce01:
This APC man is just waking up to reality ....

Nigeria with all the Brains , been ruled by fulanis?

Smh

Shut up

This is yet another sign that things are getting rough for these people.

So voting a political party in a region is restructuring?

Is Baba Akande saying that rigging APC into government by fire and brimstone is part of their own brand of restructuring?

The desperation to 'capture' the South West by the APC is all too glaring.

The way the mob was unleashed on Ambode in Lagos revealed a level of desperation unparalleled.

And all this is just because they don't know how to handle Buhari's monumental failure.

Why is it difficult for the South West APC leaders to tell Buhati to his face that he has failed?

Are they afraid of him?

The last time that Tinubu was being pushed around by Buhari and his people not a single APC governor had the requisite "liver" to protest.

It was Fayose and other PDP guys who pushed back fiercely to the admiration of the same APC (speaking with one voice) cowards.

So he is saying that the Disunity amongst Nigerians today brought about by a nepotistic/clannish leader which is fast spreading amongst regions can be regarded as restructuring?