The senior lawyer said this in Ado Ekiti at the weekend, during a programme tagged ‘diplomatic talk’ organized by the Department of international Relations, where Malaysia High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr Lim Juay Jin was the guest speaker.
“This has been the practice in USA, Australia and Canada. But in Nigeria, we have a central government , where only one person determines what happens everywhere. In the past we had regional governments where each was allowed to develop and Nigeria was better off then.
“Nigeria has six geopolitical zones and these can be allowed to function as component parts and Nigeria will be good for it. During the regional government, Nigeria was growing faster. Malaysia is a very small country with a population of about 30 million and this makes it easy to govern.
“If Nigeria has been operating the regional government, we would have developed even better than Malaysia. Our fore fathers considered the population, land and resources as very large, that was why they introduced regional government. It has always been the smaller, the better”.
He assured that Malaysia will strengthen its business relations with Nigeria because of the integrity of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s government and its hostile disposition to corruption.
“ABUAD is a place where you can study under a peaceful atmosphere. It has a good environment and a complementary state-of-the-earth infrastructures where student can learn and deliver. I know the graduates will be change agents in the system because of learning and character that is in practice here.
“One thing that has been of tremendous advantage to both Nigeria and Malaysia is that they highly educated workforce. I believe that if Nigeria can deploy this effectively, greatness will be achieved because hope of success has not been lost”, he said.
DAILY POST
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