Nigeria’s Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, has called on the collapse of the country’s 36 states into 6 zones.
According to him, this will be a part of a drastic restructuring of the country’s federation. The country’s development would continually be hindered if this isn’t done, he said.
The abolition of the 36 states, he said, would release the latent potentials for growth by the regions, which he said, were, over the years, foiled by the reckless derailment of the country’s federalism by successive military governments.
His positions were stated in his new book, Who will love my country: Ideas of building the Nigeria of our dreams, which is due for public presentation on Wednesday in Abuja.
He said suggestions that fiscal federalism would bring about distortive growth were untenable, affirming that even in a forest, not all trees are equal.
