[Mhiz Rebecca]

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has disagreed
with some members of the political class that has been
calling for the restructuring of Nigeria. In a recent
interview with Channels TV, Obasanjo said what Nigeria
needs urgently is the restructuring of our mentality and
not the country. According to him, restructuring our
mentality on the kind of country we want and working
towards it would get us the kind of country we so
much desire to have.
"I have asked six different people who talk about
restructuring and six of them gave me different point
of views. The other day some people even came to me
and what they were talking about doesn't make sense.
We have a country that God has endowed. Now the
management of that endowment is what we all have to
put all our hands on. All hands must be on deck
and look at how to deal with it. Some of them are
nostalgic about the independence that they are
restructuring. Some of them are nostalgic about
immediate post independence. Some of them are
nostalgic about their tribe. That is their restructuring. I
cannot be part of that. My own restructuring is that we
have to restructure our mentality. We have to
restructure our mind. We have to restructure our
understanding of Nigeria. What country do we want? If
we decide on what country we want, then how do we
get that country. How do we get the inclusiveness?
How d we get every Nigerian feeling a sense of having
a stake in the country?".