{"id":85046,"date":"2021-08-21T09:50:56","date_gmt":"2021-08-21T08:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=85046"},"modified":"2021-08-21T09:50:56","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T08:50:56","slug":"federal-system-highly-imbalanced-poorly-managed-says-jega","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/federal-system-highly-imbalanced-poorly-managed-says-jega\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal system highly imbalanced, poorly managed, says Jega"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Former National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission , Prof. Attahiru Muhammadu Jega, has said for Nigeria to grow and prosper, it must restructure its current Federal system, which he said is highly imbalanced and poorly managed.<\/p>\n<p>Jega, who stated this in a paper he delivered at the 4th public Lecture at Nasarawa State University, Keffi titled \u201cRestructuring the Nigerian Federation: Challenges and Prospects\u201d, argued that \u201crestructuring is highly inevitable and the time to start is now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In this respect, the former Vice Chancellor of Bayero University, Kano, further stated that the country is either urgently reformed and repositioned to satisfy the yearnings and aspirations of Nigerians for a federation based of the rule of law, justice, equity and equality of opportunity for all citizens, or it would be engulfed in perpetual instability and poor management of diversity with the likely terrible possibility of dismemberment by the extremist agitations for new \u2018nations\u2019 to be created out of the present day Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a way out of the logjam, the country must come to terms with the challenges and prospects of restructuring. 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