Former Minister of Education and convener of the Bring Back Our Girls Campaign, Oby Ezekwesili, has said restructuring is not the solution to Nigeria’s problem.
Speaking at the Big Ideas Podium, she said the nation needs policies to address the economic inequalities.
Ezekwesili insisted that the problem with the country was not technical but governance failure.
She said: ”The obsession with politics is a divisionary strategy of the ruling class every time which favours the rapacious elite to distract the suffering mass with politics.
”Nigeria presently is not sustainable. Something radically different must happen.
”Political restructuring will not solve our problems because the content will remain the same and the outcome this time around will be disastrous. We need economic governance as the basis for any political grouping the country may need.
”For Nigeria to survive, it must overthrow the existing order especially the 57-year-old political class and entrenched pattern. We need world class human capital not a nation of global trolls.
”We can’t continue to allow a few people who have hijacked our government to decide our fate, the citizens must rise to disrupt the status quo. A well constituted non-partisan group of intellectuals must help Nigeria fight this war because it cannot be a war fought without knowledge.”
