Total Restructuring Or Nothing - S’East Senators Declares

Senator Mao Onuabun­wa, representing Abia North Senatorial Zone, has insisted that the stance of South East senators on the on-going constitutional review is “total restructur­ing”.
Ohuabunwa who stated this while addressing news­men yesterday in Umua­hia after inaugurating the council executives of his political structure “Follow Better Organisation”, said Nigeria’s current structure bequeathed by the military was faulty and out of tune with democracy.

He regretted that North­ern senators voted against devolution of power and restructuring but said that senators from the South East would not accept any­thing less than total restruc­turing.
His words: “Nigeria can’t move forward without re­structuring. What we have now is military structure which is at variance with de­mocracy. Our stance is total restructuring.
“Restructuring is not dis­integration; it is not seces­sion. We need it for Nigeria to move forward”, the sena­tor fumed.
Ohuabunwa said that the lopsidedness in Nigeria’s current political structure was responsible for the ris­ing wave of agitations for self-determination by vari­ous ethnic nationalities in the country.
He said that unity should be based on equity and jus­tice, arguing that the way to win back the confidence of Ndigbo in Nigeria is to at least grant the creation of addition state to bring the zone at par with others.
“If you want us to ap­pease our people who have been agitating for Biafra, we should at least have the parity state in the constitution amendment instead of throw­ing away the entire proposal.”
The former Speaker ECOWAS Parliament, how­ever, said consultations were still going on among senators to revisit some of the salient proposals that were earlier re­jected with a view to passing them.
He explained that the ma­jor reason the restructuring proposal was shot down was because of misunderstanding by some senators about the essence and true meaning of restructuring.
Ohuabunwa expressed hope that with proper con­sultations and education, those who earlier opposed the move would see reason to support it in the overall inter­est of the country.
The senator had while in­augurating members of his political structure earlier, en­joined them to remain com­mitted to the structure and work harder to expand it to the grass root ahead of the 2019 polls.
Ohuabunwa who said he had given a good account of himself so far as the senate identified the bill for the take-over of the Abia State College of Education (Technical) Aro­chukwu by the Federal Gov­ernment which has passed second reading, as one of his landmark achievements.
The senator who said three of his bills including the bill on Agriculture Credit Scheme had already been signed into law assured his constituents of more federal projects in the zone.