Restructuring Nigeria – What does that mean?

13 November 2024

The word RESTRUCTURE means to radically CHANGE the Structure of something. It means out with the old, and in with the new.

When a company is failing or has failed, it may have time to Restructure before complete collapse. A failing company can Restructure by reconfiguring its operations.

So, since Restructuring is so common, WHY is it that Nigerians don’t know what Restructuring Nigeria is about? It’s because the political class throws dust into their eyes! The political class (and their Helpers) manufacture confusion to mislead Nigerians. For example, Buhari in November 2018 whilst in Paris made comments to the effect that nobody knows what Restructuring of Nigeria means. Yet, this same Buhari had been part of the Fulani contingent to PRONACO (2005-2006), so he was actually well-placed to have told Nigerians and the world EXACTLY what Restructuring is about, and HOW it can be achieved peacefully. Why then didn’t he! It’s because he wanted to cause confusion.

The Restructuring Nigeria agenda of PRONACO which was a full RECONSTRUCTION of the Union to become what “We the Peoples decide”, continued on and is today known as the NINAS Proposition (of Transitioning for Constitutional Reconstruction).

In all these rolling years, the political class has maintained its agenda of misleading Nigerians with wrong concepts of Restructuring that keep Sovereignty hijacked like:

-“Devolution of powers” as if Sovereignty belongs to the Federal Government of Nigeria (ie the political class converging in Abuja) when it actually belongs to the Constituent Peoples of Nigeria.

The political class also deceives with a Restructuring that is:

-State Police, or Local Government Autonomy, or some kind of Resource Control.

NONE of those things would cancel the STRUCTURAL problem of Nigeria. We need a form of Restructuring that corrects the dysfunctional constitutional arrangement codified by the fraudulent 1999 Constitution. So that means that proper and perfectly done Restructuring is Constitutional Reconstruction.

Remember, Nigeria came into being in 1914, by the fiat of Britain with NO CONSULTATION with the indigenous Peoples, and since Independence in 1960, the Peoples have never been allowed to deliberate on their political and economic future. This must change! It has cost Nigerians too much: in bloodshed, in land grabbing by Fulani, in economic miseries, in infrastructure miseries, and in Islamic terrorism etc. The Peoples will now decide their future, and determine how they want to live together.

The NINAS Transitioning Template is the Mechanism by which all Ethnic nationalities of Nigeria can sincerely and peacefully address the painful issues of the Union in an orderly manner. We meet and discuss under a time-bound period of Transitioning to bring hope and confidence in a good future for all the Peoples of the Union. This Constitutional Reconstruction will remove Nigeria from the current brink of socio-political and economic explosion. It will produce fresh constitutional arrangements for a Reconstructed (Restructured) Nigeria that will satisfy the aspirations of all the Ethnic nationalities, and that will provide a foundation for good governance.

Essentially, Constitutional Reconstruction is therefore what is being called “Restructuring” in the media and on the streets. So, we can now all explain it to others: to our family members, friends, colleagues and networks. Plus, we can tell the political class to stop their trickery, and describe Constitutional Reconstruction / Restructuring for them so that they will know that their crooked ways are being exposed.

Ndidi Uwechue is a British citizen with Igbo heritage from the Lower Niger Bloc. She is a retired Metropolitan (London) Police Officer, she is a signatory to the Constitutional Force Majeure, and she writes from Abuja.

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