By Modupe Gbadeyanka

Recently, the call for the restructuring of Nigeria became more intense after the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) worldwide, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, said this was the right time to listen to agitators.

Speaking on Saturday at the 60th Independence Day Celebration Symposium organised by RCCG and the Nehemiah Leadership Institute, the respected cleric said the government must restructure the country or the nation breaks up.

According to him, Nigeria can adopt the systems of government practised in the United Kingdom and the United States of America (USA).

Business Post reports that while the British have the parliamentary system of government, America practices the presidential system of government.

When Nigeria gained independence from Britain in 1960, it adopted the parliamentary system of government until it was aborted through a military coup in 1966.

“Why can’t we have a system of government that will create what I will call the United States of Nigeria?” the former university lecturer asked.

“Let me explain. We all know that we must restructure. It’s either we restructure or we break, you don’t have to be a prophet to know that one. That is certain – restructure or we break up,” the man of God, who is fondly called Daddy GO by his members, said.

“Now, we don’t want to break up, God forbid. In restructuring, why don’t we have a Nigerian kind of democracy? At the federal level, why don’t we have a President and a Prime Minister?” Pastor Adeboye queried further.

“If we have a President and a Prime Minister and we share responsibilities between these two so that one is not an appendage to the other.

“For example, if the President controls the Army and the Prime Minister controls the Police. If the President controls resources like oil and mining and the Prime Minister controls finance and inland revenue, taxes, customs etc. You just divide responsibilities between the two,” the 78-year cleric, who hardly criticises the government, suggested in his speech.

But the presidency, in a statement issued by Mr Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari, described these talks as “unhelpful and unwarranted,” warning the cleric and others agitators of restructuring that the current government will not succumb to threats.

“This government will not succumb to threats and take any decision out of pressure at a time when the nation’s full attention is needed to deal with the security challenges facing it at a time of the COVID-19 health crisis,” Mr Shehu said in the statement issued on Sunday night.

The media aide said President Buhari has the mandate and “the interests of 200 million Nigerians” to protect and will take a decision “out of fear or threats especially in this hour of [a] health crisis.”

“The President as an elected leader under this constitution will continue to work with patriotic Nigerians, through and in line with the parliamentary processes to finding solutions to structural and other impediments to the growth and wellbeing of the nation and its people,” Mr Shehu concluded.

https://businesspost.ng/general/buhari-issues-strong-warning-to-adeboye-others/

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The only reason Adeboye is criticizing Buhari recently is because his Church business has been threatened.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pTU6loTL3Q


The Ghana novelist burna boy ft in is music the musters you made..... She is the bomb watch plss

werey government

Hmmm...bloggers. And fake news.

Luftwaffe:
The only reason Adeboye is criticizing Buhari recently is because his Church business has been threatened.

can't you see how daft you are? that is why your likes are being reduced to eating grasses like the cows controlled by the herdsmen.

Hmm

I don't know what is wrong with restructuring that people are afraid of it. Restructuring simply means a change of structure. It is what we do daily in our homes and at our work places.

When something is not working, we look for ways to tweak it to make them better. We don't leave it the same way and hope it works.

Some say a new structure should be a fiscal federation, some say it should be parliamentary. Whatever it is, the idea is for everyone to agree first that the country needs a new structure. Once that is agreed, we can then discuss what the new structure should be. My problem is that people don't want to believe in the possibility of a new kind of Nigeria. They just want it to remain the same way it is.

If you fall in that line, the question you should ask yourself is, is Nigeria working as it is currently structured? If your answer is no, then, why are you afraid of change? Except you are happy with the way the country is presently, then I rest my case.

I am not proposing any structure here, I am only saying that we agree first that this isn't working and a change is required. All of us have to come to that agreement first.

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The one why Adeboye is criticizing Buhari recently is because his Church businesses has been threatened.

It's apparently clear & getting clearer by d day dt d current structure has bcom dysfunctional & outlived it usefulness & relevance!

Thus, any futuristic, right-thinking person wil alwys recognise dt d structure is due 4 a change, else d entire sys keeps going in circular motion!

D Covid-19 scamdemic dt's given as an excuse wil not allow them 2 do restructuring, bt it allows them 2 embark on d redundant cash-gulping pop census, because d census is expressly 2 their massive looting advantage!

Unlike other sane Nations of d world, if pop census has ever helped us in dis frigging country, wil Nig stil be in shambles as it is 2day?

D census they wil conduct even after d manipulation & falsification of figures, there won't stil be any sound projections & strategic plans into d future!

#RestructureNowOrSeparation!

Ok

The reason the north may never agree to restructuring of the country even though BH claims they want out, is that Nigeria was set up to be a robbery in slow motion. The north spareheaded army won a war and they have settled on the southern(ND) resources as their booty.
Now that oil prices is dipping, they want to explore their own resources through the back door.

OwenJesse27:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pTU6loTL3Q


The Ghana novelist burna boy ft in is music the musters you made..... She is the bomb watch plss

It's monsters not musters

Sometimes...I just wish I no be Nigerian

The Switzerland model would be good for Nigeria or we can come up with our own model

You took two separate statements from Adeboye n the presidency n join them together to say that they are referring to each other? With such a mischievous headline?

You call yourself a journalist?

Shior!

Someone is afraid of CAMA

DLuciano:
can't you see how daft you are? that is why your likes are being reduced to eating grasses like the cows controlled by the herdsmen.

You are both foolish
But yours seems extreme
Award winning fool

Flango:


I don't know what is wrong with restructuring that people are afraid of it. Restructuring simply means a change of structure. It is what we do daily in our homes and at our work places.

When something is not working, we look for ways to tweak it to make them better. We don't leave it the same way and hope it works.

Some say a new structure should be a fiscal federation, some say it should be parliamentary. Whatever it is, the idea is for everyone to agree first that the country needs a new structure. Once that is agreed, we can then discuss what the new structure should be. My problem is that people don't want to believe in the possibility of a new kind of Nigeria. They just want it to remain the same way it is.

If you fall in that line, the question you should ask yourself is, is Nigeria working as it is currently structured? If your answer is no, then, why are you afraid of change? Except you are happy with the way the country is presently, then I rest my case.

I am not proposing any structure here, I am only saying that we agree first that this isn't working and a change is required. All of us have to come to that agreement first.

Politician's laugh each time they read our comments

Ole! Onye oshi! kpalawo!

There's an adage in my language that goes as follows

The head will be receive a skull cracking knock will surely receive it even if he/she runs to america.

I think that adage fits this situation

DLuciano:
can't you see how daft you are? that is why your likes are being reduced to eating grasses like the cows controlled by the herdsmen.

Before the cama issue came on board can you point out one statement adeboye made about govt or state of the nation?

Sensation

:p

We restructured in 1960, restructured during every coup, even restructured parliamentarianism for presidential, yet people talk "restructure" like we've never restructured before and don't know how many constitutions we've been through.

The restructuring Nigeria needs is that of the minds of we the people. It's the one thing that's remained constant through all past restructures and it's time we start looking within instead of blaming the structure as if we'd like the new structure, which we won't.

Lock them up.