Challenges confronting Nigeria too many for civilian govt to tackle —Banire

Muiz Banire

A former Lagos State commissioner for the Environment, Dr. Muiz Banire, SAN, yesterday, noted that considering the challenges in the country, the civilian administration may not be able to address them in a manner that is beneficial and sufficient for Nigerians.

He said this at the 11th Annual Symposium of the Muslim Students' Society of Nigeria, MSSN, B-Zone, in Ibadan, with the theme: 'The Nation's Destiny'. 

Banire said that voting for the right candidate would help the country get to its desired destination and address the agitation on ethno-religious and imperative of inclusiveness.

He said: "Considering all the challenges this nation is confronting with, I suspect that the civilian administration might not be able to address them in a manner that is beneficial and sufficient. I’m beginning to think that we must have a person that will act as a dictator that can help us resolve this.

"Those competent Nigerians unfortunately are not likely to emerge in the kind of political system we practice. Restructuring is treated already against those that can do it and to that extent most of them won’t even come forward. Those that can rule are being relegated with the term called Politically Exposed Person, that’s why that can’t show up. We are more or less at a quagmire and certainly we have to look for external way of dealing with the situation otherwise this country will collapse.

"In fact some of us lost hope and we believe that beyond hopelessness, it seems that the situation is still redeemable. Some fundamental changes need to happen for us to progress in this nation.

"We need a lot of education for our people. Most of the people that vote in Nigeria today are uninformed and vulnerable people because majority of them don’t know why they are voting and who to vote for.

"The stakeholders need to wake up and help to enlighten these people to do the right thing by not selling and wasting their votes. When we achieve this, we will now have a credible leadership emerging and that’s when we will now get to our destination."

Also speaking, another legal icon, Chief Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, said restructuring of Nigeria was long overdue but must be done to meet the yearnings of Nigerians.

Fagbemi said: "In terms of restructuring, it is a thing that I believe is being neglected. They’ve have neglected it for a very long time. The further we are away from it, the closer we are in very serious collapse.

"We do not solve the problem by running away from it; the problem we have in this country is the effect of the fundamental cause and you cannot treat the effects by neglecting the cause that’s why I’m supporting the agitation for restructuring."

Culled from Vanguard

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