…Writes Buhari, Ex-Presidents, NASS, Others
A prominent Northern elder and former Permanent Secretary in the defunct North Central State, Alhaji Abbas Sambo has written President Muhammadu Buhari on the need for “Nigeria to be restructured before the 2023 polls.”
The letter, also copied to former heads of state, Generals Yakubu Gowon and Abdulsalami Abubakar; former military President Ibrahim Babangida; and former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan and his Vice, Namadi Sambo.
The elder statesman also copied the letter to the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila. L
Others who were copied include: former governors, including a former governor of Lagos State, and National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Disclosing this at a press conference, held at the Arewa House, Kaduna on Tuesday.
Sambo also called for the stripping off of immunity on all Nigerian governors for better governance of their respective states.
The former Chairman of the Federal Government Public Accounts Committee in the 1980s, while canvassing the review of the 1999 Constitution, maintained that the country must be restructured along the six regions, each to be headed by a premier.
He said, “We must remove from state governors’ immunity and apply it only to the Prime Minister, his Deputy, the Regional Premiers and their Deputies. The present constitution is indeed laughable, as the present senators are trying to pass a law for them to have the same immunity.”
He added that in view of the worsening security situation in the country, there is the absolute need to rethink the federal structure since it has failed.
