Regional autonomy’ll address Nigeria’s diversity challenges, Agbakoba tells Buhari
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Former President of Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Dr. Olisa Agbakoba, SAN, said yesterday that regional autonomy will address Nigeria’s diversity challenges.
Agbakoba in a statement, entitled: ‘’The Missing Fundamentals and Regional Autonomy for Nigeria,’’ argued that regional autonomy would also help the country achieve growth and development.
‘’We must return to the notion of devolution of powers and regional autonomy. Regional autonomy resolves our diversity challenge. More important, it allows subsidiarity to deliver public service at the base of the nation.
‘’I was intrigued by the extent of devolved power in the western region under self-rule in 1951. According to the author of a lecture on regional autonomy, devolution of powers in western Nigeria was substantial and devolved from the regional government to the provisional, divisional, di