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Interview - Interview
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Nigeria: what the governors say.
How to move Nigeria forward continues to exercise the minds of all its citizens, and particularly the political elite. Ben Asante went to interview a selection of governors on how to restructure the country. Here are excerpts:
'We must continue to live together' Governor Obong Victor Attah of the oil-producing Akwa Ibom State in the South. On resource control by producing states "My assessment is that the phenomenon of resource control has become better understood and therefore better accepted. This is the only thing that would make this country develop and for us to live in peace. This is allowing the people in whose areas resources are found to control them and to make accounts to the centre as the constitution demands." On the national or sovereign conference to decide how to move Nigeria forward "I don't know why President Obasanjo keeps resisting the idea of holding a national conference. At first, I didn't think there was a need for it, but now I think we need to talk to each other, advise each other and even caution one another that if certain things continue, we would have to look more closely at the union. There is a limit to how much one can bear when Nigerians kill fellow Nigerians and keep driving them away at the slightest opportunity on the basis of re...See the full content of this document
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