The National Assembly will only mess up any restructuring bill. In the first place, the National Assembly is one of the institutions to be restructured or that will be affected by restructuring. There will no longer be 109 Senators and 360 HoR taking the rug off their individual feet.
The international situation favours all those calling for restructuring. Look at what is going on in nearby Cameroon, look at Catalonia and Kurdistan…
The other unfavourable condition for Nigeria is that out of the three Tripod of Igbo, Yoruba and Hausa-Fulani, the two dominant nationalities want Restructuring.
It is better for President Buhari to see the handwriting on the wall and do the needful. It is no longer about some “Jonathan supporters-” All the SW governors have spoken and none of them is opposed to restructuring, perhaps one of the few occasions Yoruba political office holders have spoken with one voice irrespective of party affiliations.
What has made the Jonathan group relevant is the restructuring slogan, unfortunately, we in APC created the opportunity for that to happen. Many criminals that should be in jail have suddenly found their voices.
The APC Committee on Restructuring should have been set up in the first 6 months of the administration. There are also practical steps the President can take before it is too late.
When President Obasanjo came in 1999, the first thing he did was to decentralise the law school that Abacha had taken by fiat from Lagos to Abuja. So little, but it is something. We should continue to help the President tp appreciate the recurring echoes from the valley.