{"id":43503,"date":"2021-05-21T17:41:32","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T17:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?p=43503"},"modified":"2021-05-21T16:44:49","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T16:44:49","slug":"nnamdi-kanu-declares-position-on-restructuring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nnamdi-kanu-declares-position-on-restructuring","title":{"rendered":"Nnamdi Kanu declares position on restructuring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has kicked against the Southern Governors\u2019 call for the restructuring of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST recalls that the governors under the aegis of Southern Nigerian Governors\u2019 Forum on May 11, resolved for the restructuring of the country to end agitation for secession in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The governors made the decision in Asaba, the Delta State capital, while deliberating on how to curb deteriorating security situation in their respective states and other parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>However, the IPOB leader, in a tweet on Friday via his Tweeter handle, said Nigeria needs secession not restructuring.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, restructuring may not end the bad governance that stimulated the agitation for separation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you want Nigeria restructured to the 1960 era that lasted only 6 years? Or to Aburi that drove you all mad enough to commit GENOCIDE?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWill this your new #restructuring turn bad men to good men? It won\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat Nigeria needs is dismemberment, not some dodgy restructuring\u201d, Kanu Tweeted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has kicked against the Southern Governors\u2019 call for the restructuring of Nigeria. DAILY POST recalls that the governors under the aegis of Southern Nigerian Governors\u2019 Forum on May 11, resolved for the restructuring of the country to end agitation for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":43502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,2140,254,625],"class_list":["post-43503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-nigeria","tag-nnamdi-kanu"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nnamdi Kanu declares position on restructuring - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has kicked against the Southern Governors\u2019 ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nnamdi-kanu-declares-position-on-restructuring\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nnamdi Kanu declares position on restructuring\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has kicked against the Southern Governors\u2019 ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nnamdi-kanu-declares-position-on-restructuring\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-05-21T17:41:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/05\/img-60a7e353c3d86.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"900\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nnamdi-kanu-declares-position-on-restructuring#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nnamdi-kanu-declares-position-on-restructuring\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Nnamdi Kanu declares position on restructuring\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-05-21T17:41:32+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nnamdi-kanu-declares-position-on-restructuring\"},\"wordCount\":178,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nnamdi-kanu-declares-position-on-restructuring#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/05\/img-60a7e353c3d86.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Nigeria\",\"Nnamdi Kanu\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nnamdi-kanu-declares-position-on-restructuring#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nnamdi-kanu-declares-position-on-restructuring\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nnamdi-kanu-declares-position-on-restructuring\",\"name\":\"Nnamdi Kanu declares position on restructuring - 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