Restructuring of Nigeria is what the Igbos are demanding, Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, said on Saturday.
Speaking at the World Igbo Congress summit in Enugu, the Senator added that the Igbos want restructuring of the federation in order to ensure equity and allow the people to develop and grow at their own pace.
”The minimum Ndi’gbo demand from Nigeria is a restructure of the federation so that every component part of it can substantially harness its resources, cut its coat according to its cloth and develop at its own speed.”
On the 50th anniversary of the Civil War, the lawmaker blamed the outbreak of the war for the failure of the then leaders of the country to implement the ‘Aburi Accord’ agreement.
”Instructively, the ill-fated ‘Aburi Accord’ was about restructuring, even if it is not exactly as we want it today. But it was breached and discarded, plunging the nation into an avoidable fratricidal war.
”Yet, 50 years after, the need and call for restructuring and return to a true federal state have only persisted,” Ekweremadu lamented.
He, however, urged the Biafra agitators to carry out their agitation in a civil way and not through violence and anti-social act.
