{"id":72419,"date":"2025-08-07T08:04:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T08:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=72419"},"modified":"2025-08-07T08:04:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T08:04:33","slug":"nwodo-warns-of-possible-breakup-without-urgent-restructuring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/07\/nwodo-warns-of-possible-breakup-without-urgent-restructuring\/","title":{"rendered":"Nwodo Warns of Possible Breakup Without Urgent Restructuring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Former Minister of Information and ex-President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief John Nnia Nwodo, has warned that Nigeria could disintegrate before the 2027 general elections if urgent steps are not taken to restructure the country.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in Abuja on Wednesday at the public presentation of two books authored by veteran journalist Ike Abonyi, Nwodo criticized Nigeria\u2019s current governance system, calling it a &#8220;unitary constitution disguised as federalism&#8221; that has failed to tackle the nation&#8217;s deep-rooted challenges.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The event, held at the Shehu Musa Yar\u2019Adua Centre, attracted prominent personalities including Labour Party\u2019s Peter Obi, PDP chieftain Alhaji Mohammed Hayatu-Deen, and Emmanuel Agbo who represented Bauchi State Governor Bala Mohammed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nwodo advocated for the devolution of powers to regions, resource control by sub-national entities, and fiscal federalism.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He warned that the country could face a constitutional crisis if reforms are not implemented, with the possibility of regions boycotting future elections or rejecting their outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf restructuring does not happen, we will have no alternative but to go our separate ways,\u201d he declared.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He also lamented worsening socioeconomic conditions across the country, citing high youth unemployment, deepening poverty, and crumbling infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He referenced alarming reports by the United Nations and the World Bank as indicators of Nigeria\u2019s fragile state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado &nbsp; Former Minister of Information and ex-President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief John Nnia Nwodo, has warned that Nigeria could disintegrate before the 2027 general elections if urgent steps are not taken to restructure the country. &nbsp; Speaking in Abuja on Wednesday at the public presentation of two books authored by veteran journalist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":72420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72421,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72419\/revisions\/72421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}