Emeka Anyaoku

Former Commonwealth Secretary General, Chief Emeka Anyaoku has said that the present administration in Nigeria seems unconcerned that the nation was slowly heading towards disaster.

Chief Anyaoku gave the critical assessment while speaking at the Akintola Williams Foundation (AWF) 2nd Annual Lecture which had the theme: “Re-establishing Nigeria’s Leadership Position in the World” on Thursday.

He noted that no nation has maintained or would be able to sustain a credible position in regional or global leadership without a politically stable and sound socio-economic domestic background that must be reckoned with.

“To achieve greater political stability and deserving socio-economic development in the country, Nigeria must restructure its present governance as it were and must do so by returning to true federalism which our founding fathers negotiated and wisely agreed in the 1960, 1963 Constitutions to be the most suitable structure for the stability and development of our multi-ethnic and multi-religious country,” Anyaoku said.

“With the nature and the structure of the ongoing agitations in several parts of the country, our present leadership, including especially the Senate, which two weeks ago rejected the motion for devolution of powers, our present leadership seem to be indifferent to the fact that Nigeria is currently sleep-walking to a national disaster. Restructuring will enable us create fewer and more viable federating units for economic development,” he added.