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Restructuring: Yoruba leaders meet Lagos Speaker, Obasa Thursday

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THE calls for the restructuring of Nigeria’s political, economic and social firmaments will further reverberate on Thursday, December 13, 2018, in Lagos, as eminent Yoruba leaders, including Prof. Banji Akintoye; an Afenifere chieftain, Chief Amos Akingba; Secretary-General, Yoruba Council of Elders (YCE), Dr Kunle Olajide among others pay a visit to the Speaker, Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon Mudashiru Obasa to seek for his support.

Obasa is also the current Chairman, Conference of Speakeof State Houses of Assemblies of Nigeria.

Other Yoruba leaders that would be on the visit include Senator Tokunbo Ogunbanjo, Dr Tola Adeniyi, Chairman, Voice of Reason, Dr Femi Adegoke and the Convener, Yoruba Koya Leadership and Training Foundation, Otunba ‘Deji Osibogun whose organization is spare-heading the visit.

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The rest are: the governorship candidate of Alliance for Democracy (AD) in 2015 in Lagos State, Mr. Bolaji Ogunseye; Otunba Alaba Shonibare, Tokunbo Ekukanim, Dr. Akin Fapohunda, Dr Ladi Awosika, Secretary, Otunba Yomi Alao, Otunba Tilewa Osifeso, Dr John Mabayoje, Tunde Fatunde, Chief Kunle Osuntokun, Retired Assistant Inspector General of Police, Tunji Alapini, among others.

Osibogun, in a statement made available to newsmen on Tuesday in Lagos, said the core objective of the visit was to let all elected Yoruba parliamentarians understand why the restructuring of Nigeria’s political, economic and social structures must be implemented now for the sake of the generation yet unborn.

He also said the visitation, which was being taken to all the parliaments in Yorubaland, was aimed at formally seeking for the support of Speaker Obasa and other members of Lagos State House of Assembly on the constitutional request to restructure Nigeria in order to address injustice, inequality and unemployment threatening the peace of the nation.

The statement disclosed that Hon. Obasa would be presented with, a paper titled “Yoruba Nation in a Restructured Nigeria Federation,” written by Yoruba Koya Leadership and Training Foundation, the September 2017 Ibadan Declaration on Restructuring by Yoruba People and draft of Proposed Nigerian Constitution written by Voice of Reason (VOR) during the visit.

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