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Constitutional Review: OPC Calls For Return To Regionalism
The Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) has urged the National Assembly Committee on the Review of the Constitution to consider returning the country back to regional system of government.
This was contained in a statement by the publicity Secretary of OPC, Yinka Oguntimehin on Sunday.
The Yoruba socio-cultural organization said it is lending its support to the growing calls by various ethnic groups across the country for return to the 1960 constitution.
The OPC further reaffirmed its support for a call by a group of ethnic nationalities for Nigeria to be restructured into six reorganized regions.
“For Nigeria to make any meaningful progress, we must return to regionalism. It is the best system that will engender progress and development for a multi-ethnic country like Nigeria.
“What we are proposing is a regional system that will make the regions to be self-reliant.
“Each region will be in control of whatever is produced and generated in their region.
“They will also keep 70 percent of such generated revenue and send thirty percent to the centre.
“It is our firm belief that with such arrangement, the country will attain its God-given potentials, while peace will reign with attendant development,” it said.
The OPC listed countries with multi ethnics nationalities like Nigeria,
but with far smaller population, that operate regional system of government.
The OPC publicity scribe stated also that the Yoruba socio-cultural organization supports the new proposal for a United Region of Nigeria, even as he urged the Committee that was saddled with the responsibility of reviewing the Constitution to know that now is the right time for Nigeria to go back to regionalism.
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