Nigeria needs administrative restructuring - Uduaghan

The former governor of Delta State, Emmanuel Uduaghan, has stated that ‘administrative restructuring’ is needed of the country for greater development.

According to him, restructuring meant different things to different people depending on their background, which he said, had made it difficult to reach a consensus on the subject matter.

Uduaghan made the statement as a guest on 'The Discourse', a programme on Classic FM in Lagos.
He highlighted that since there was no agreement on restructuring, achieving it would be an almost impossible task.

“Restructuring means different things to different people and that is why we cannot be talking about restructuring or achieve restructuring as a country.

“Some people see restructuring on a geographical basis. Let us just build this country into several states and all that, let us merge some states you know, some parts of the country have taken all positions in government, all the appointments belong to one part of the country or we need to redistribute them. They look at restructuring from different geographical issues.

“But l look at restructuring on the administrative basis. Administrative in the sense that there is a huge gap in the percentage of funds that goes to the Federal government compared to the states and local government areas,” he stated.