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Nigeria must embark on short term restructuring before 2023, says Jega

A former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, has stated that for the challengesfacingthecountrytobe effectivelytackled, theremust ashort-termrestructuringbeforethe2023generalelections. While faulting the executive and legislative arms of the Federal Government over the restructuring of the country, the former INEC chairman maintained that the two arms of the government had been treating the restructuring with levity. Jega stated this at the 2021 Public Lecture he delivered at the Achievers University, Owo, Ondo State.

With the lecture is titled, ‘Towards stabilizing the Nigeria federation’, Jega said there was lack of political will on the part of those who are at the among the political heads of the country. He said: “Inthepresent circumstances, as necessaryand desirableasrestructuringis, a number of challenges would have to be overcome to successfully bring it about. “First, passion has been inflamed and allowed to circumscribe the discourses of restructuring, resulting in the emergence of hardened antagonistic positions, which if allowedtopersist, wouldmake reconciliation and consensus building very difficult. indeed, if not impossible. “The perceptions of exclusion, marginalization

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