Restructuring Must Precede 2023 Elections, says Yoruba Initiative

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Preparations for the 2023 general elections should be halted and efforts focused on the restructuring of the country, the Yoruba Leadership and Peace Initiative (TYLPI) has said.

In its reaction to the communique issued by the governors of the 17 southern states at the end of their meeting in Asaba, Delta State on Wednesday, the group said Nigeria’s survival and her future prosperity depended on the urgent restructuring of the country to give every Nigerian a sense of belonging as well as create the right atmosphere for sustainable development.

In a statement signed by its Director of Publicity and Media Affairs, Mr. Tunde Ipinmisho, TYLPI said it would be hurtful to the nation’s strategic interest to go ahead with the election without addressing the fundamental structural problems in the polity which, according to it, had given rise to mass discontent, economic difficulties, social instability and crippling insecurity.

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TYLPI is a think thank of Yoruba professionals, intellectuals and entrepreneurs. It said it was pleased that the idea of restructuring was gaining the required traction, noting  that the Executive and Legislative  arms of government, through statements by the Minister of Information and the upcoming sensitization on restructuring by the Senate Committee on Constitutional Reforms, respectively, indicated that restructuring had gone mainstream.

The organization added that rather than cosmetic political and barren socio-economic adjustments, what the nation needed now to avoid violent rupture, was peaceful restructuring.

TYLPI commended the southern governors for their brave and timely initiative and urged the Federal Government and the chief executives of the northern states to give the effort the required support.

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The group said the southern governors,  through their Asaba communique, had unambiguously spoken the minds of the people and called on all genuine patriots to support them as a way to move the nation away from the precarious precipice on which it has found itself.