Deputy senate president, Senator Ike Ekweremadu stressed that Nigeria can only create a vibrant democratic society where Nigerians will better their lives through functional education.
This was said at the 54th Founders’ Day Lecture of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, held at the Princess Alexandra Auditorium (PAA).
Delivering a lecture titled: Key Governance Issues in Nigeria: My perspective, he pointed that education, among other factors is key to creating a vibrant society. In his words: “Education must be prioritised through special interventions to ensure that facilities and standards are high.” He also stressed that public institutions must be revamped to boost efficiency and effectiveness and public participation must not be neglected.
He further asserted that “if NYSC Scheme is reformed to become a compulsory military service for every Nigerian who attains the age of 18, it will make the scheme serve the nation better.”
“To create a vibrant democratic society, other vital issues such as effective leadership, insecurity, corruption, poverty and unemployment should be reformed, improved and revamped,” he added.
Speaking on the nature of Nigeria’s federalism, Ekweremadu who bagged a Bachelor of Law and Master of Law degrees from the University of Nigeria, said that the country has not been able to practise true federalism, especially as it empowers the central government to wield too much powers to the detriment of the component states. He called for the overhaul of such ingrained practices to allow for true federalism that will see the redistribution of powers to and reconfiguration of resource allocation formula to cater for the new responsibilities that will come to the states.
He advocated for the return to the regional arrangement with six geopolitical zones as federating units judicial reforms, proportional representation, modification of the presidential system to allow for a greater overlap and affinity between the executive and legislature as well as the creation of a new state in the South East as equity and justice demands
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