Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, said the clamour for restructuring was all about devolving powers to the states to make them function effectively.
Declaring that he does not believe in the disintegration of Nigeria, the
governor observed that the fiscal policy and over-centralisation of power
had turned Nigeria into a unitary entity.
Akeredolu, who spoke while playing host to officials of the National
Senior Secondary Education Commission, NSSEC, who were in the
state for a one-day advocacy and sensitisation workshop on the
establishment of the commission with education stakeholders in
Southwest states in Akure, lamented that putting many items in the
exclusive list had concentrated too much powers in the hands of the
Federal Government, adding that Nigeria’s unity was premised on
sustainable true federalism.
The governor identified over-centralisation of structures of governance
as a major reason for the unending agitations for restructuring.
Akeredolu therefore advised the NSSEC team to limit its operations to
curriculum formulation, monitoring and implementation rather than
wholesale take-over of secondary schools’ administration in the country.
