Yoruba sociocultural organisation, Oodua Peoples Congress(OPC) has restated the need for complete overhauling of Nigerian structure, insisting that regionalism is the only solution to the structural imbalances of the country.
This was disclosed yesterday after the end of the two- day meeting in Lagos.
In a communiqué signed by the Aare Onakakanfo of Yoruba land, Iba Gani Adams, who is also the national coordinator of the organisation and general secretary, Chief Babajide Tanimowo, the OPC stated that it would raise the standard of all the cultural promotion activities of the group.
The group emphasised readiness to partner with the government of the South West states in their desire to improve the Security architectures in their respective states.
The group also urged the federal government to conduct a national census in order to ascertain the true numbers of population of the citizens across the country.
It also said that census remains the best measure that could help in addressing the various challenges of the country.
“We are determined to continue pressing on for restructuring as the best solution to the various challenges of Nigeria. We seek regionalism as a system that allows all the six regions (federating units) under the Nigerian federation )to develop at their own pace in accordance with the 1960 and 1963 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.’’
