25112020 - Selfish Northerners opposing restructuring, says el-Rufai

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34— Vanguard, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2020
Vanguard, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2020 — 35 Selfish Northerners opposing restructuring, says el-Rufai Continues from Page 5 Southern Kaduna. But the newspapers based in Lagos and Abuja choose to focus on Southern Kaduna rather than what is really happening,” he said. The governor noted that the crisis was over 200 years old and could not be tackled in a minute. On population, El- Rufai argued that population could only be controlled through education of the girlchild. “Countries that controlled birth rate through legislation are now reversing it. There is a lot of debate on that because countries that have tried to curtail demographic growth like China have now reversed themselves. “Singapore even pays you to have children. The current thinking in developing economies is that population growth is not bad if you can ensure that the population is educated and healthy. “But at the state level, we are all trying our best to reduce fertility level. And what is the best way? The best way is to educate girls. If you make sure that your girls are educated, you immediately reduce fertility level. “The way is to ensure that the girls get at least senior secondary school level because now they take their fate in their own hands. They start at least from the age of 18.” It's a game to hoodwink the unwary — Afenifere Reacting yesterday, Afenifere, in a statement by the National Publicity Secretary, Yinka Odumakin, said: “El- Rufai can go to an assembly of fools and tell them such fallacious fabrications and they will cheer him but he should know that he cannot say that to enlightened people. This is Taqqiya next level. “If his reason was valid, why have they not reintroduced it after the 2019 elections? He will say it is because of COVID-19 and EndSARS? These fellows take fellow citizens to be fools. There is no game they will not play on the way to 2023 to hoodwink the unwary.” Nigerians now wiser — Ohanaeze On its part, Ohanaeze Ndigbo said Nigerians were wiser now to be hoodwinked, adding that the only thing that would convince Nigerians was for APC to ensure restructuring of the country before 2023. Speaking through his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Chief Emeka Attamah, the President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Nnia Nwodo, said what would excite Nigerians would be to hear that President Buhari has ordered the restructuring of Nigeria. “Why is it that this administration thrives on lies? There is no programme of theirs that they promised Nigerians that has been realised. “One would recall that it was in the build-up to the 2019 elections when the Southern and Middle Belt Leadership Forum was agitating for restructuring that APC half-heartedly set up the Governor El-Rufai Committee and no sooner was the election conducted and they consigned whatever recommendations they made to the dustbin. “Now, they have come again. Motion without movement. I think Nigerians are wiser now and cannot be hoodwinked by any tongue in cheek pretentions any longer. “Until they take any visibly convincing steps this time around, the whole El-Rufai story is hogwash. Restructuring is incontrovertibly inevitable before Nigeria collapses. “Let them carry out the restructuring of the country before the 2023 elections to acquire some vestige of credibility before Nigerians and the international community. “Let the breaking news be: President Buhari orders the restructuring of Nigeria immediately. By that, he would have written his name in gold. All the sins of this administration will be forgiven and forgotten and he will become one of the greatest, if not the greatest leader of Nigeria.” APC govt not honest with Nigerians — PANDEF Apex socio-cultural organization of the South South geopolitical zone, Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, has said that the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, is not honest with Nigerians. National Chairman of the forum, Air Commodore Idongesit STAFF OF OFFICE TO THE ROYAL FATHERS —From left: Speaker, Kwara State House of Assembly , Yakubu Salihu Danlandi; wife of Olupako of Share, Hajia Fatimah Suleiman; Olupako of Share, Oba Haruna Olawale Suleiman; Gov AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara; Olusin of Ijara-Isin, Oba Ajibola Ademola Julius; wife of Olusin of Ijara-Isin, Elizabeth Ajibola; Son of Olusin of Ijara-Isin, Lawrence Ajibola; Deputy Gov Kayode Alabi and Commissioner for Local Government, Chieftaincy Affairs and Community Development , Aliyu Muhammad Saifudeen, during the presentation of Staff of Office to the Royal Fathers at Government House, Ilorin, on Monday. Nkanga, retd, made the remark yesterday while reacting to a statement by Governor El-Rufai that the draft bill on restructuring recommended by his committee was stepped down in 2018 due to its politicization ahead of the 2019 general polls. His words: “The call for restructuring Nigeria did not start today. Even the All Progressives Congress, APC, came into power because when they were campaigning in 2015, they had said LAGOS—The Presidential Task Team managing the traffic gridlock on Apapa-Oshodi Expressway may have abandoned its duty, giving way to touts and hoodlums to take over the management of the road. In their crude manner, the street urchins have unleashed mayhem on motorists, battering and extorting them to no end. The most agonising thing is that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Works Minister, Babatunde Fashola and Kayode Opeifa, whose direct responsibilityit is to oversee the situation, keep mum as the traffic situation in the area goes worse. Also, the Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo- Olu who should intervene to save his state appears not interested. Some of the articulated vehicles drivers, who spoke to Vanguard, lamented that in addition to the humiliation they suffer in the hands of the touts, each truck is forced to part with not less than N50,000 to that they will restructure Nigeria. “Unfortunately, when they came in they refused to do that, and people were surprised. In fact Nigerians started asking questions on that, reminding them that this is what you said you will do, that was why they (APC government) decided to set up that El-Rufai’s committee. “I am just hearing it now that the draft bill was stepped down, that must have been an internal thing within the party, and it means that they were not honest in the first instance, because if they stepped it down in 2014 against 2015, why would they step it down when the committee met. “I think they are not honest to Nigerians. And PANDEF is asking Nigerians to stand up and save this country instead of leaving it to go in disarray before they will now say okay we want to restructure it. This is the time to do it, in fact before the next election. Nkanga noted that El- Rufai’s information however was not necessary now, as PANDEF would not stop talking about restructuring the country He reiterated that restructuring Nigeria is not in the hands of any individual, group or political party, stressing that “it is a national discuss and the whole country must stand up and restructure it, it is what can save this country.” APAPA TRAFFIC CHAOS: Osinbajo, Fashola, Sanwo-Olu look away as traffic gridlock worsens By Theodore Opara, Kingsley Adeboye & Victor Ahiuma- Young N70,000 every day. One of the drivers, said the way they extort us, we may end up spending up to N100,000 daily before we are given access to our destination. The situation has also increased the rate of accident in the area. A source close to the Federal Road Safety Corps told Vanguard that a total of 57 road traffic accidents were captured on the axis between October 2019 and 2020 which claimed the lives of 16 people. The source also stated that 12 of the accidents were fatal and 22 minor cases. When contacted, the Lagos Sector Commander of Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, Olusegun Ogungbemide said: “We are going to add more men on the axis pending the time a permanent solution will be found. “The problem is a national one and needs input from all stakeholders including business operators around this corridor. “I am aware that the Nigeria Ports Authority is addressing it by concessioning Lilipon. They are trying to bring up the call up system to effectively address the problem,” he stated. Speaking to Vanguard, President of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, Prince William Akporeha, said “the protest that followed the #EndSARS crisis led to the congestion in the ports. Already, some parts of the country are experiencing scarcity of petroleum products. Since Monday when normalcy started returning, our members (Tanker drivers), from almost all parts of the country are rushing to Lagos to lift products. The same thing for containerized trucks as trucks drivers are trying to return empty trucks, while imported cargoes stranded in the ports are finding their ways out of the ports. “If you check, because I was there very early today (yesterday), while we try to ensure that our members are orderly, other heavy duty trucks are compounding the situation because we have no control over them. Unfortunately, the task force team members that were enforcing orderliness are now nowhere to be found probably because of safety concerns. So, all stakeholders need to cooperate to ensure free flow of traffic.” He dismissed allegation that the union officials were collecting money to pass tankers, saying “those I saw today (yesterday) were touts and not union members. In any case, we do not collect union dues on the roads. People need to understand how NUPENG operates. Anybody can claim to be a NUPENG official to do anything unethical. That is one of the reasons we have a monitory team to ensure that unscrupulous individuals do not drag our name to the mud. We need to also call on government to fix the roads leading to the ports and tank farms because if the roads are motorable, I am sure we may not be experiencing this problem.
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