They mostly miss the point: tensions over zoning and rotation of power arise solely from the current deformed political structure; restructuring the country into a truly federal system is the only road to national survival. Those who vociferously swore by zoning, even threatened to “make the country ungovernable” if zoning was not respected, have today, having secured power through Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd. There is little doubt that zoning, rotation and quota system deny a country the best and most acceptable, a lazy approach to solving problems, but the question is: Can Nigeria survive in its present form without zoning? Or are these latter-day advocates of meritocracy ready for a just federal system anchored along the 1963 republican constitution? Separatism is just dormant, only a political restructuring based on justice can eliminate it.

Source: Punch August 02, 2020 23:03 UTC