THE South South Reawakening Group (SSRG) has advocated good governance ahead restructuring as the only panacea to problems plaguing the country.
The group dismissed, outright, the concept of restructuring, describing it as a mere mantra and the height of deception only meant to garner political goodwill.
Convener of the South South Reawakening Group, Mr Joseph Ambakederimo, while speaking at a press conference in Warri, Delta State, to mark his 56th birthday anniversary, harped on the need to entrench good governance borne out of attitudinal change by leaders and Nigerians.
“Again, in the SSRG, we ask, will this restructuring stop the cancerous corruption that has pervaded the entire Nigerian landscape?
“Is it the restructuring that will bring internal democratic norms into our political parties?
“Is it restructuring that will stop people burying money in septic tanks, farmlands, in overhead tanks, and in cemeteries?
“Is it restructuring that will stop budget padding? Is it restructuring that will stop our teachers from becoming traders and turning classrooms into a marketplace?
“Is it restructuring that will stop the legislative arm from appropriating to themselves jumbo emoluments they do not deserve? We can go on and on without end, “ he said.
According to the group, “Our position is at variance with the clamor for the call to restructure the country. We see nothing wrong with the structure of Nigeria as it is today and in future, the problem with Nigeria is good governance and nothing more.”
Ambakederimo, in his State of the Nation address entitled, “What are WE restructuring,” also decried the silence of the media and the generality of Nigerians to the issue.
According to him, “It is even more troubling and shameful that the media that should shape the discourse has joined in the fray to muddle up the waters.
“We must redirect this narrative of restructuring that we have been presented with as the only pathway to our Eldorado as a country.”
The group urged Nigerians and the Federal Government to rather make efforts to identify the cause of the present agitations in the country and the appropriate remedy to repositioning the country.