Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n
A former Governor of old Kaduna State, Balarabe Musa, has said that the only way out of the numerous challenges confronting Nigeria was to divide the country into six regions.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet us restructure the country and go back to the regional arrangement, and so, should abolish the states and go back to regions; instead of the 36 states, we should have six or seven regions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Musa said the call for restructuring was valid, but insisted that those agitating for it should be able to make it clear to Nigerians what restructuring constitutes.<\/p>\n
He said those calling for restructuring must think of what will unite the country and make Nigerians proud of themselves and of their country.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs far as we are concerned, our restructuring idea is that, we have now seen the problem of weakening our regional government,\u201d Musa was quited by the Sun.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we had regional government, we had more responsible leadership and we had more progress.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said Nigeria must return to the regional arrangement, where we had Eastern Region, Northern Region, Western Region and later, Mid Western Region.<\/p>\n
The former Governor pointed out that during this period, there was more sense of responsibility in the leadership and coordinated progress, \u201cso, let us go back to that arrangement.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said with this each regional government would now decide how many states and local governments that befits it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Africa Press-Nigeria: A former Governor of old Kaduna State, Balarabe Musa, has said that the only way out of the numerous challenges confronting Nigeria was to divide the country into six regions. \u201cLet us restructure the country and go back to the regional arrangement, and so, should abolish the states and go back to regions; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":6617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1048],"class_list":["post-26452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-kaduna-state"],"yoast_head":"\n