Alhaji Lema Jibrilu, a former Presidential aspirant on the
platform of the defunct National Republican Convention (NRC) has urged the
country to scrap her 36 states with its 776 local government areas and revert
to regional structure.
Alhaji Jibrilu who spoke at memorial lecture in honour of
the late founding chairman of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), Late Dr.
Abdulrahaman Okene said:
"I don’t want to sound outrageous but if I had my way,
I will roll back all the states and local government back to the period of the
late 60s and early 70s. See almost all the resources of the country are been
held by commissioners, ministers and others and nothing for development of the
country. I must say that there is disunity in the North; importantly there is
no more unity in the North as we use to know. This was brought by so many
factors. This is most unfortunate. The north use to be one entity, I think the
creation of states and local governments brought about the disunity in this
country. There is hardly any community
in the country today with adequate drinking water, schools are dilapidated and
the health care system is deteriorating everyday".
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