Nigeria Currently Very Dangerous, Anything Can Happen Tomorrow - Balarabe Musa

Elder statesman and former governor of old Kaduna State, Alhaji Balarabe Musa has pointed out that the current pulse of the country is very negative and highly dangerous, warning that this state of affairs “could lead to anything tomorrow”.

While observing that insecurity reigns supreme in the entire country but more alarming in the North, the left-wing Second Republic politician called for restructuring of the country and return to regional government, as a panacea for the multifarious problems confronting Nigeria.

He decried the level of poverty, unemployment, the level of corruption, stealing and waste of resources, which apply to the whole country, particularly in the North, stressing that “The president and his party are clearly incompetent, and the governors throughout the country, except very few of them are either ignorant or grossly irresponsible”.

Speaking in an interview with Saturday Sun, Musa also said, “Let us restructure the country and go back to the regional arrangement, and so, should abolish the states and go back to regions; instead of the 36 states, we should have six or seven regions. Let each regional government decide how many states and local governments it wants to have and finance.

"The federating units should be the regions, and resources should be allocated to the regions, and each region can create as many states and local governments it wants based on allocations it has and resources available to it.

“We will make the centre not as strong as it is, and make the regions and local governments stronger, but the federal government will also be strong enough to coordinate and protect the interest of Nigerians who don’t want to identify themselves with regions, but Nigeria. We can do that only if we have a relevant central government that is not too strong, but certainly not too weak to be able to coordinate and bring about national unity.”