He made this observation yesterday while speaking at the 9th Honourable Justice, J.M Adesiyun Biennial Memorial Public Lecture, organised by the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Ilorin branch in collaboration with the Adesiyun family.
Delivering a guest lecture on the topic, “Democracy, Law and Change: Imperative for Nigeria,” Ndoma-Egba insisted that the current structure cannot deliver development and bring about the needful growth in the country.
He pointed out that the way forward is to dismantle the infrastructure for corruption, inefficiency and incompetence which promotes a suffocating federal structure.
The former lawmaker noted that Nigerian states were not created in economic considerations or as economic units rather they were created whimsically in political and personal considerations.
He recalled that when the country was using regionalism, the three regions were viable, competitive and remitted to the federation account unlike now when states were conceived as consumption and not production centres.
Ndoma-Egba said most states in the country are bankrupt and they cannot pay salaries, while poverty and unemployment are also biting harder as the states largely depend on the federal government.
He, therefore, called for restructuring of the federation in such a way that the federating units are economic units and economically viable, charging Nigerians to be courageous and face the current reality.
According to him; the “current structure cannot deliver development. We should not continue in self- deceit or self- denial, every society must adapt to changing realities otherwise it dies.
“Nigeria has great realisable potentials. Nigeria is a potentially great nation which must be harnessed,” Ndoma-Egba noted.
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