{"id":30679,"date":"2020-10-03T14:54:24","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T14:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=30679"},"modified":"2020-10-03T14:54:24","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T14:54:24","slug":"what-buhari-must-quickly-to-avoid-nigeria-breaking-up-pastor-adeboye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/what-buhari-must-quickly-to-avoid-nigeria-breaking-up-pastor-adeboye","title":{"rendered":"What Buhari must quickly to avoid Nigeria breaking up \u2013 Pastor Adeboye"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has advised the federal government to restructure Nigeria, in order to get rid of secession agitations and its economic challenges.<\/p>\n

Adeboye stated this while speaking at the 60th Independence Day Celebration Symposium organized by RCCG and the Nehemiah Leadership Institute on Saturday.<\/p>\n

According to the respected cleric, the President Muhammadu Buhari administration must carry out the restructuring of the country \u201cas soon as possible\u201d to avoid a breakup of the various social-ethnic components.<\/p>\n

The 78-year-old further suggested the adoption of a merger of the British style of government and the American system of government.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy can\u2019t we have a system of government that will create what I will call the United States of Nigeria? Let me explain. We all know that we must restructure. It is either we restructure or we break, you don\u2019t have to be a prophet to know that one. That is certain \u2013 restructure or we break up.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow, we don\u2019t want to break up, God forbid. In restructuring, why don\u2019t we have a Nigerian kind of democracy? At the federal level, why don\u2019t we have a President and a Prime Minister?<\/p>\n

\u201cIf 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 examples, if the President controls the Army and the Prime Minister controls the Police. If the President controls resources likes oil and mining and the Prime Minister controls finance and inland revenue, taxes, customs etc. You just divide responsibilities between the two.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the state level, you have the governor and the premier, and the same way, you distribute responsibilities these people in such a manner that one cannot really go without the other. Maybe we might begin to tackle the problems.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we are going to adopt the model, then we need to urgently restore the House of Chiefs. I have a feeling that one of our major problems is that we have pushed the traditional rulers to the background and I believe that is a grave error.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWithout any doubt, we must restructure and do it as soon as possible. A United States of Nigeria is likely to survive than our present structure,\u201d Adeboye said.<\/p>\n