Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, on Tuesday
said Nigeria’s democratic experience would never be an ideal model without
entrenching fiscal federalism, noting that a true federal system “is the only
path to nationhood.”
The governor has also unveiled a new 37-feet statue
of the presumed winner of the June 12 election, Bashorun Moshood Kashimawo
Olawale Abiola at Alapere, Lagos.
As a federating unit, Ambode noted that the
government of Lagos State “stands for a restructuring process that will lead to
fiscal federalism and devolution of power.”
He stated this position at a public lecture the
state government organised yesterday to mark the 25th anniversary of the June
12 presidential election held at the Lagos TV complex in Agidingbi.
After the public lecture attended by many pro-democracy
leaders, Ambode unveiled a new 37-feet statue of Abiola.
At the lecture titled: ‘Restructuring: Antidote for
Ineffective and Ineffective Politics’, the governor noted that the country’s
democratic experience might still be far from ideal without entrenching fiscal
federalism.
He added that fiscal federalism “is the only way to
achieve true nationhood.
“We are absolutely convinced that it is the right
way to go for us to realise the optimum potential and prosperity of the
federating states and the country.”
Ambode said since the annulment of June 12, the
struggle for its actualisation had continued until President Muhammadu Buhari
pronounced the day as Democracy Day and conferred posthumous award on Abiola,
Chief Gani Fawehinmi and others.
By this singular act of the president, Ambode said he
“has written his name in gold in the political history of Nigeria.
“This formal recognition is a crown of victory to the
struggle that had taken the lives of so many nationalists and patriots.”
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