QUESTION 1 OF 23 PRESIDING QUESTIONS FOR 2023 PRESIDENTIAL QUESTS: THEIR AMBITIONS VERSUS OUR CONVICTIONS

 


SECTION A: REFORM OF GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE FOR DECENTRALIZATION/FEDERALISM, ECONOMIC REVOLUTION & SECURITY RESTORATION

Like I stated on twitter on the 18th day of July, 2022; “Voting an upright Pastor as President and a honest Islamic cleric as Vice President or vice versa CANNOT take Nigeria out of the woods with the current DYSFUNCTIONAL governance structure. We need a pair that is committed to the ideals of FEDERALISM.”

Our governance framework under the Nigerian Federation is extremely dysfunctional and inefficient for a country that has over 95% of her 206 million population residing and working outside Abuja. They live and function in various urban, semi-urban & rural areas within the subnational units in Nigeria. Thus, they would fare better in access to security, food, water, health care, education, roads, other infrastructure, and overall development if the 36 States, FCT and 774 LGA Councils are ‘legally, geographically, administratively, politically and economically’ reinforced, through constitutional devolution of powers/decentralization/federalism, to cater to these daily personal & communal needs. For instance, the high offices of the Inspector-General of Police and Hon. Minister for Education at the Federal level would remain largely ineffective until State & Community Police, and 36 States Commissioners for Education, FCT Education Secretary & 774 LGA Supervisory Councilors for Education respectively are ‘legally, geographically, administratively, politically and economically’ empowered to curb the endemic insecurity and out-of-school children syndrome. Consequently, decentralization is the topmost stich in time by the incoming President in 2023, required to expeditiously save millions of lives and restore Nigeria’s sanity.

 Therefore, are you convinced that above their individual ambitions to rule Nigeria, constitutional devolution/decentralization of powers by the Federal Government to the 36 States, FCT and 774 LGAs should be the predominant discourse during the pre-2023 election conversations by all Presidential candidates, and not empty talks of ‘I will do this and that’? Do you agree that each of them should spell out HOW he/she plans to ensure this Federalism as well as a realistically estimated TIMEFRAME for this life-saving plan, if elected?

(You may wish to send in your answers to my timeline on @toluademujimi on twitter, @adetolu ademujimi on linkedin or my whatsapp number – for those who have it)

a. I strongly agree              b. I agree     c. I disagree             d. I strongly disagree

 

Dr. Adetolu Ademujimi is a Medical Doctor, Author, Reformer, Coach and Public Policy expert who wrote in from Akure in Nigeria. Email: ademujimi@yahoo.co.uk; Twitter: @toluademujimi; Instagram: @adetoluademujimi; Linkedin: @adetolu ademujimi

 

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