The Yoruba Council of Elders (YCE), have said the move by southern governors to unanimously call for the restructuring of the country, is a welcome development, but still won't save Nigeria from its current woes.
The Council which made the statement through its secretary general, Dr Kunle Olajide, in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, said the problem with Nigeria is its constitution, and until it is discarded for a new peoples’ Constitution, nothing will change.
Olajide said though the position of the governors might appear too late, their decision to come together and reach a consensus on some critical issues affecting the country should be commended.
He called on them to take a step forward by demanding with urgency a new constitution, which he said would ultimately address many of the resolutions from the meeting and solve the multi-faceted challenges confronting the country.
“The meeting of the governors is a bit late but it is better late than never. As for me, the nation’s problems are more fundamental. It is merely scratching our problems, on the surface, we are not going deep. Our problems essentially is the 1999 constitution which the Nigerian people were not part of the writing, we were not part of it as a people. Any political system that evolves from that constitution is the root cause and bane of our challenges and that is why we are retrogressing.”