{"id":72482,"date":"2025-08-07T12:18:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T12:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=72482"},"modified":"2025-08-07T12:18:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T12:18:54","slug":"72482","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/07\/72482\/","title":{"rendered":"Nwodo Warns Nigeria May Disintegrate Without Restructuring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former Minister of Information and ex-President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief John Nwodo, has warned that Nigeria may disintegrate before the 2027 general elections if urgent constitutional reforms are not implemented.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in Abuja on Thursday at the launch of two books authored by veteran journalist Ike Abonyi, Nwodo described Nigeria\u2019s current system as a &#8220;unitary constitution disguised as federalism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He emphasized that restructuring is crucial to preserving the country\u2019s unity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we head into 2027 without addressing these structural imbalances, there may be no election and worse still, no country,\u201d he cautioned.<\/p>\n<p>Nwodo advocated for a decentralized system in which regions control their resources and internal affairs, remitting taxes to the federal government for core responsibilities such as defence, foreign affairs, customs, and immigration.<\/p>\n<p>He blamed Nigeria\u2019s worsening economic crisis on poor governance and obsolete infrastructure, highlighting rising youth unemployment and declining life expectancy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are bleeding billions annually due to poor infrastructure. Life expectancy is now among the lowest in the world,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the proposed reforms, Nwodo urged the government to invest heavily in education, digital literacy, and agriculture as a means of creating jobs and driving economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery Nigerian child should be digitally literate. We must return to agriculture and vocational training,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The event was attended by prominent politicians, academics, and civil society leaders, many of whom echoed Nwodo\u2019s call for urgent restructuring as the only path to national stability and sustainable development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata Former Minister of Information and ex-President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief John Nwodo, has warned that Nigeria may disintegrate before the 2027 general elections if urgent constitutional reforms are not implemented. Speaking in Abuja on Thursday at the launch of two books authored by veteran journalist Ike Abonyi, Nwodo described Nigeria\u2019s current [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":72483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72482","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\/72482","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72482"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72485,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72482\/revisions\/72485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}