The 93-year-old Afenifere leader said Nigeria must be restructured, but lamented that many advocates of restructuring usually abandoned the cause the moment they started to benefit from the skewed system.
He said this in Ibadan on Wednesday at a seminar titled, ‘Strategies and tactics for the actualisation of a restructured Nigerian federation’ organised by the Yoruba Leadership and Peace Initiative.
He said those clamouring for restructuring must be ready to take the struggle to the streets and show everybody that they were ready to pay the price for the campaign.
Adebanjo said, “The problems of VAT, local government autonomy, state police, resource control and numerous others have been fought and won by our founding fathers until the military came in 1966 and reversed it.
“It is unfortunate that majority of those who are clamouring for restructure today are at the same time benefiting, one way or the other, from the present skewed system.
“Our problem is the 1999 Constitution. It is an insult that those who lack basic primary education want to continue to dominate us.”
Former Chairman, Editorial Board of The Guardian, G.G Darah, said what the various socio-political and cultural groups, civil society or self-determination organisations were asking for was not the breakup of Nigeria but equitable system.
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