Wife of Alex Ibru, the late publisher of The Guardian Newspaper, Maiden Ibru, has stated that no politics can stop the restructuring of the country as it is a context of federalism.
She said this in her address, titled, ‘When a foundation is solid’ at the Guardian Book Launch that was held yesterday at the Federal Palace Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos.
According to her, the idea of restructuring has come and no politics can repel it.
She said, “The Vice President is here with us. We are very grateful for your presence despite the fact you are busy at this time that the President is not in the country. I would like to reiterate a few points we have repeatedly made in.
“Some of our editorials. First, we would like the President and his men and women to note that restructuring of the federation in the context of federalism is an idea whose time has come and no politics can repel that idea.
“That is why we have been committed to a weekly commentary on the front page of The Guardian on the issue. We do this every Thursday.
“As you may have seen, today is the 24th edition of our ‘Federalism is the answer, after all’ serial.”
She added that “We would like our President to note that a return to true federalism will solve most our security and economic challenges. It is not new. The issue of restructuring is one of the promises that the administration of President Buhari hasn’t kept.
“It is part of the APC manifesto and there is a report of the el-Rufai committee that the party received since 2018. There have been many more reports on this including a 2014 report on restructuring from the political conference the Jonathan administration handed over to President Buhari.
“We are also aware of other challenges including rampaging corruption at all levels. We know about the debt burden and ticklish but controversial fuel subsidy that have always made nonsense of our budget expectations.
”There are many more including health-care infrastructure challenges but the most urgent issue our leader should address at this time is ‘Nation Building. We didn’t know the implications of what iconic Chinua Achebe, a professor was saying when he wrote his last classic, ‘There Was A Country.’”
