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A governorship aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) hon. Olabode Mathew Ayorinde, has said that for Nigeria to move forward there is urgent need for restructuring, adding that the current constitution in use is undemocratic.

Ayorinde, who is a serving deputy Chairman, House Committee on Business and Rules in Federal House of Representatives, believe that if democracy must thrive, it must be on the basis that every region and every state managing its resources and contributing to the centre for security and international obligations to unite the country together.

The governorship aspirant who spoke with newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja after he picked his nomination forms to contest the party’s primary, said “It is not proper for the whole nation to work and put the resources in the basket and a super federal government takes the chunk of the resources and manage it for the region.

“Unfortunately the constitution we are using in this country is not a democratic constitution is a constitution bequeathed to us by the military government. It is therefore a unitary constitution given to us by the military, which we have started practising.

“So, I am thinking that over time our leaders would know that to all these basic elements for democracy to grow and  thrive in this country one basic elements to stop regional avengers, regionals  crises is for every region every regions have enough resources it is because one is cheaper to access that others went to sleep. So every region can harness  their resources perhaps  half of it goes to the centre that makes  us a nation I am in full support of restructuring.”

On power devolution, he said that there certain things Nigeria copied from the United State but failed to practice in the country.

“We went to the US to copy presidential system but we did not copy it fully. Are there states police in the US? But we did not replicate it in Nigeria.

“Like I have said, perhaps when we copied it we were not matured for state police but dynamism will tell us over time will tell us at what point in time can we tolerate state police and at what point in time can we allow states to prospect their resources.

” I am from Ondo State. Bitumen in Ondo State is second to the largest all over the world. The state cannot harness these resources waiting for FG because of the law that govern mineral resources in the country.”

While responding to governor Olusegun Mimiko’s comment that Ondo will remain PDP state, the governorship aspirant said: “well, during the last general election, the governor promised the then President Jonathan 1.5 million votes in Ondo state but at the end of the day the APC scored over 60 per cent and he had less than two hundred thousand votes. So, from that premise you will know that there is a different between noise and music. The truth is that in Ondo state today everybody is dissapointed on how he has managed the state in last seven and half years, everybody in the state is yarning for the change.

“In Ondo state today, by the grace of God I am the highest employer of labour and everybody in the state knows that. What I have been able to do in a private sector before I came to the House of Representative, I will use it to transform the state.”

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