The Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu has said Nigeria needs to go back to the path of true federalism as it celebrates its 56th independence anniversary.

In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media, Uche Anichukwu, Ekweremadu said every capable hands have to used to revive our economy, stating there was hunger in the land.

He said, “This 56th Independence Anniversary calls for sober reflection.  No people can make progress unless they retrace their steps back to where the rain started beating them. Nigeria, at formation, had a building plan, which was based on true federalism as covenanted by our founding fathers at various conferences leading up to independence.

“For as long as we followed that plan, we prospered. But, once we discarded the building plan, dissembled the inherited structures and legacies and began to undermine the fabrics of equity, justice, balance, healthy competition and economic prosperity that was ingrained therein, we charted our route to the current perdition.”

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