TWENTY – SEVEN States cannot pay salaries.” That was President Muhammadu Buhari speaking at a recent occasion. Restructuring is not a swan song neither is it a mantra. It cannot also be called a slogan. Rather it is a direct appeal to our collective soul and wisdom to decisively reflect and preserve our Nationhood so that, quoting Chinua Achebe in reverse “The centre can Hold”. It is a road to that dream Nigeria that has to be.

THE recent passage of the Child Rights and Responsibility Bill into law in Enugu State by the State House of Assembly was no doubt a welcome development and a major breakthrough for the children of the state.

However, arguments as to what PDP would have done about the current economic situation which APC-led government is not or has not done rather xrayed some economic solutions which could be relevant for discussions by policy makers in Nigeria. These arguments in some comments by some Nigerians were compiled from a Vanguard’s news story, “Economic Recession: Nigerians have realised electing APC was a costly mistake- Usman” Read.

In Akwa Ibom today, apart from Deputy Governor Moses Ekpo, Uwemedimo Nwoko, the state’s Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, is probably the only cabinet official in the Udom Emmanuel-led administration that had populist leaning to a point of drawing media attention before getting into government. It was that backdrop that informed mixed reaction by some concerned individuals.

Elections has come and gone, but the gainers are yet to be known in Delta State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).