AllahKaduna Nzeogwu wrote:

I always tell people that Southwest because of Ogun and Lagos State will be the most progressive region whenever Restructure happens in Nigeria.

Only 7 out of the 54 countries generate higher revenue than Lagos State in Africa.

Maybe, that is why Jagaban Tinubu monopolised collection and management of Tax and other revenues of Lagos State, making him one of the richest.

Southeast region will likely find Restructure difficult for some years maybe longer, because there are more private revenue generation than public revenue generation systems.
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Sopuruchukwu B Ehidonye replied:

The problem with the above analogy is that it presupposes that a restructured Nigeria will remain exactly the way it is politically and economically. But available data suggests that this will not be the case.

A restructured Nigeria would mean that Ibaka Sea Port in Akwa Ibom, Onne Seaport, Calabar and Portharcourt seaports will become functional and viable. This will up the commercial activities along the Onitsha, Nnewi and Aba business axis. Lagos will became less of an option for importers in these places. A new mega city may also emerge in Onne, Ibaka and Calabar because seaport attracts very productive people. This would mean a reduction in the number of new Eastern emigrants to Lagos and the return of millions of Easterners in Lagos to the East.

You see, if we restructured Nigeria by crashing the 68 items on the exclusive list thingy today and made such things as building of international airports, electric power generation and distribution, and seaports fall under the purview of the State governments, Easterners will probably leave Lagos in en ‘mass.

If we get Ibaka, Calabar, Onne seaports to start working, Easterners will leave Lagos because this will greatly make the Onitcha-Nnewi-Aba-Porthacourt commercial axis to RISE ! . The Over-Centralized Unitary Feeding Bottle System in Nigeria made Lagos what it is today.

The FG's presence in Lagos is what made Lagos what it is today. It is what has drawn the crowd and the infrastructure. It is what has drawn the best brains from across the ethnic nationalities in Nigeria to Lagos. It is what has created a huge base of people with great commercial buying power hence the place has become very lucrative for the inherently industrious Easterners.

We should look at contexts when we make these submissions.

In a restructured Nigeria, Lagos and Southern Ogun State will loose most of its appeal. This is also the reason why some Westerners would not want a Restructured Nigeria. The unitary system has an inbuilt chain-reacting factor that sustains it. Elitist complacency across all the ethnic divides built on what they and their hangers-on stand to gain from the present unitary system is one such factor.

Unfortunately, none of the current Presidential candidates is talking about federalism or restructuring.

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I think the foolish thing about the proponent of Nigeria restructuring is that we only look at the imaginary economic gains which by the way is erroneous, we had not looked the security situation of such restructured Nigeria, what do they mean by restructuring, regional police, regional governments, regional laws, those are practically unstable and may spring up an arms race that could be more costly than the last fallout of regional government.

What is needed is accountability,restructuring could imply a more complex taxation, then a weaker centre which is practically dicey for a complex country like Nigeria, with a weaker centre one of the three major tribe can wake up one day and overrun the whole country, the current system is the best for Nigeria.

Lagos is a melting and meeting point of every Nigeria, there is no part of Nigeria not touched by the wealth of Lagos and other cities, Lagos is mainly a port city thriving on imports, Let Eastern port grow for export, opening up all the ports when we have very little to export is just opening up al of our lands for further exploitation, the Ports in Calabar, what are we going to export In them, the East is building a formidable indigenous economy let's wait for that, things take a bit of time, I don't know such a country where nearly everyone seems to think they know the solution yet we are in deep shit

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