ILORIN—The chairman, Kwara State Council of
Traditional Rulers and Emir of Ilorin, Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu
Gambari, has expressed the urgent need for the restructuring of Nigeria and called on President Muhammadu Buhari to make the best use of the report of the 2014 National
Conference to achieve that purpose.

The monarch also expressed confidence that Nigeria would
not disintegrate, despite the numerous challenges facing it,
stressing that media practitioners should be committed to ethical practice.

The Emir, also a member of the confab, who spoke at a
meeting with members of the Correspondents Chapel of
Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, in Ilorin, noted that
Nigeria needed restructuring.
Consequently, he urged President Buhari to commence the process that would lead to implementation of the 2014
national conference report as a way to restructure Nigeria.
The Emir, who said the report of the national conference
should not be discarded, added that the President should pass the report in form of a bill to the National Assembly, so it could be embedded in the the constitution and law for the good of the nation.

He said:  “The law is made for the people and people are not
made for law. Nigerian people have gathered for a purpose,
the people have spoken through their representatives. So the parliament would have to endorse it for necessary criteria that had been drawn up in the constitution.

‘’Having done that it will now be passed as a bill and people
of Nigeria can now say they have given unto themselves this piece in the constitution. The one given to us by the military was not by the people of this country.

‘’The military only gave us that one to guide and rule
us. Men are not supposed to be made for law, but rather,
laws are supposed to be made for man.  And the constitution
of Nigeria will be the grand norm.

‘’The highest norm, law in the land so that whatever may
happen since we are still in the period of restructuring,
probably the document gathered during the confab should be
looked into as part of documents for restructuring.
‘’I believe it should not be thrown into dustbin as the
experienced professor, Professor Agboola Gambari.”
Worried by the unending menace of the Boko Haram on
innocent nigerians, Emir of Ilorin also called on the Federal
Government to identify sponsors of deadly Boko Haram insurgency in the country, expressing the hope that the insurgency would come to an end when the sponsors were
identified.

He also said that the state was glad to have Senate President,
Dr. Bukola Saraki, as an indigene of the state, assuring that the number three man would perform creditably for national growth and progress.

The monarch, who charged journalists to be socially
responsible in their news writing at every critical moment,