Following a call for national dialogue by governors from Southern part of the country on Tuesday in Asaba, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, has supported the call, saying that it is only way to address the insecurity and other problems in the country.
Adegboruwa, while featuring on Channel’s Sunrise Daily, expressed his opinion that state governors are handicapped to address the challenges in their various domains.
According to him, “look at what is going on in the land – insecurity. Farmers cannot go to work, you cannot even travel within your local entity, and the governors are not in charge because they don’t have control over security.
“The governors are not in charge because they cannot harness the resources in their states for the benefit of their people; the governors are not in charge because they go to Abuja every month to go and beg for money, in a federation.
“The governors are not in charge because even universities that they established and they call state universities, it is the Federal Government that will determine who can get admission into the university that is being funded by a state; the governors are not in charge because they cannot even generate electricity for their own people even though they have the resources,” the Senior Advocate said.
It will be recalled that governors from the Southern part of the country met on Tuesday in Asaba, the Delta State capital where they resolved to ban open grazing and movement of cattle by foot and called for a national dialogue to address the agitations by various groups in the region.
They put aside their political differences to demand a restructuring of the country along with fiscal federalism, devolution of powers, and state police, among other demands.
