Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano State downplayed the clamour for restructuring Nigeria saying only mindsets restructuring is the panacea to the nation’s current socio-economic woes.
According to the governor noted that the United States was more geo-politically fragmented and had more nationalities than Nigeria, yet it remained the strongest nation in the world. According to Ganduje, the US attained its present status because of the ability of its leaders to harness the positive thoughts and actions of its heterogeneous population and not by restructuring the country along geopolitical divides.
Ganduje, who spoke during a social event organized in honour of delegates to a pre-election meeting of the National Youth Council of Nigeria, in Kano, advocated that Nigeria should devote attention to tapping from the potentialities of its youths for national integration and development. Lamenting the high prevalence of corruption in Nigeria, the governor argued that youths were the best segment of the society to lead in the crusade against it, in view of their physical and intellectual capacity as well as their leadership potential.
It will be recalled that eminent Nigerians including Southwest APC had called on the Federal Government to urgently restructure the country in line with true federalism.
