Aminu Tambuwal,The North will accept a restructuring if no state is cheated.




north will accept restructuring if no state gets a
disproportionate share of resources.
Some prominent Nigerians including former Vice-
President Atiku Abubakar have been calling for a
restructuring of the country.
The All Progressives Congress (APC) had set up a
committee to look into the demands.
Speaking at a conference in Kaduna on Tuesday,
Tambuwal said the north was not opposed to
restructuring.
He said the region would embrace the idea if all
states in the country would get equal share of
resources, access to education and jobs.
“Only recently, the northern states governors’
forum and northern traditional leaders council
committee on restructuring of the Nigerian
federation which I chair inaugurated a technical
committee reflecting the amazing diversity of
northern Nigeria to look at the issues surrounding
the call for restructuring and get the aggregate
views of the north and present same to the
committee for use during the proposed town hall/
public hearings across the 19 northern states,” he
said.
“We have ensured that the technical committee
members are personalities who have proven
themselves in various fields, people with the
intellectual ability and experience to contrast,
aggregate and analyse the views of the north and
how they impact on the growth and development
of this country.
“Therefore, the idea that the north is against
restructuring because it benefits most from the
current state of things is circumscribed and
patently false. The fact that some people
continue to parrot such a lie only help to give
credence to the flawed argument. Let us be clear:
the north wants restructuring as much as anyone
else. However, as a people, we do not easily jump
unto the bandwagon because we are always there
for the long haul. We believe that any decision we
take must be inclusive, and respect procedures
and processes so that the outcome is sustainable.
“I think we should first, as a country, agree on a
mutual definition of the term restructuring. In
my view, if restructuring means taking stock of
our arrangement to ensure that no state takes a
disproportionate amount of the resources, or most
of the available space in the education or job
sector, or subjugate the others’ culture or
religion, or lords it over the other so that the
number of the poor and uneducated whose future
is circumscribed by their circumstance is shared
proportionately, then we are game.”
The governor said the north wanted a country
where there was peace and progress, and “where
justice is a given, where all lives are safe and
people can pursue their legitimate livelihoods
wherever they choose”
Aminu Tambuwal, Sokoto state governor, says the

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