Okonny Joins Call For True Federalism

A former  commissioner in the old Rivers State Dr Monday Okonny, has joined the call for true federalism in the country.

Dr Okonny in an interview with The Tide said with recent events in the country fiscal federalism, equity, justice and fair play which the people of the Niger Delta region have been advocating for even before Dr Goodluck Jonathan was elected president will be the only panacea to the nation’s present socie-political and religious problems.

Dr Okonny who is a  member of the Niger Delta Elders forum thanked God  for a man like Dr Goodluck Jonathan who he described as temperate for being the President of Nigeria at this time of the Nation’s political history condemned the activities of the  Islamic sect – Boko Haram which he believed had been playing out the threat by some disgruntled politicians from the North immediately Dr Goodluck Jonathan was declared president by the Independent National Electoral Commission – INEC to make the country ungovernable.

The Niger Delta Elder urged the National Assembly to immediately put in motion the machinery in making the nation practice true federalism.

In a related development Eminent Nigerians across the nation have also canvassed for true federalism as the panacea to the myriad of problems facing the nation.

At a National Dialogue organized by the National summit group NSG recently in Lagos, stakeholders including statesman, politicians, activists, economists etc bemoaned the socio-economic problem bedeviling the country and urged for   urgent steps to save the nation from collapse.

Some of the speakers at the dialogue include Chief Edwin Clark, Professor Ben Nwabueze, Chief John Nwodo, former secretary to the Federal Government, chief Olu Falae etc.

Soye Young-Itiye