To make the needed impact, President-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu must decentralized power Nobel laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka canvassed yesterday.
Soyinka, who again accused Labour Party (LP) Vice-Presidential Candidate Datti Baba-Ahmed of denigrating the nation’s judiciary, also said he would want a total reinforcement of the civil society.
There should be devolution of power to arms of government, states and local governments.
He spoke while featuring on Arise TV News Morning Belt programme.
The eminent playwright said: “Decentralisation, that is all I want out of the incoming government. Whichever it is, let us have a genuine, not rhetorical, but a genuine, practical, detailed decentralisation.
“The real devolution of power, more devolution of power to the various arms, various tiers of government, state, local governments, the reinforcement of civil entity, civil society, in the various groupings, that is the kind of structure which I want. You can summarise it in that one word, decentralisation.”