The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has described Nigeria as a nation in crisis, he said Nigerians might only be pretending so the government must not think that all is well with the country.
Nigeria is in crisis as poor governance, nepotism, marginalization and state-sponsored repression continue to do violence to national unity and cohesion. He noted that at a time like this, the country needs forthright leadership and consensus building to steer the ship of state from the wrong direction it is headed to safer grounds.
He, therefore, called for restructuring and warned that it will be dangerous to ignore the agitation for restructuring of the country.
The governor said this at the 2017 All Nigeria Editors’ Conference (ANEC)
He said: “Today, the clamour for political restructuring, fiscal federalism, state police and guarantees for free and fair elections have never been this determined across the country and will never go away. It is becoming clearer by the day that to ignore these calls is pretentiously dangerous to the unity and peaceful co-existence of this country.”
“Today, the clamour for political restructuring, fiscal federalism, state police and guarantees for free and fair elections have never been this determined across the country and will never go away. It is becoming clearer by the day that to ignore these calls is pretentiously dangerous to the unity and peaceful co-existence of this country.”
The governor stated these while opening the 2017 All Nigeria Editors’ Conference (ANEC) with the theme: Balancing professionalism, advocacy and business” in Port Harcourt, yesterday.