While the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC)continue to trade blames over who should be responsible for the crises in Nigeria, It has been revealed that the real cause of the challenges currently facing the country is the result of a lack of foresight on the part of those who established modern Nigeria. Comrade Debo Adeniran, the head of the Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders (CACOL), told NAIJ.com on Friday, September 16, 2016, at the 2016 symposium organized by The Tunji Braitheaite Foundation that neither parties should be blamed for the many issues that have enveloped the country. *Debo Adeniran, the head of CACOL According to Adeniran, it is not the economic-related issues that actually put the country into crisis, but the political aspect of the country’s national life. “Nigeria has been in crisis for a very long time, it is just that the excruciating pains that such crisis brings is just manifesting and if we are not careful, it can lead to catastrophe. “Right from even before independence, the human and material resources of Nigeria had been mortgaged to the outside world. “Nigeria has never benefitted from its resources the way it should and that is why we have inadequate formal education and economic sustainability. Families are now disjointed resulting in adults that are unable to hold their homes today as well as a lopsided political orientation with the belief that the society would continue to spoon-feed you from cradle to grave. “We produce raw materials and not finished products. We then sell these raw materials to countries that are wiser who now sell back to us at their determined prices.” Adeniran also said the call for restructuring may not be the urgent solution as the term ‘restructuring’ is not even defined yet. “It has not been brought to the understanding of everybody. The call is still as it appears to those campaigning for it; it is not like there is a consensus on what we want. “Restructuring is not an end in itself. It even could become the beginning of another crisis. “You cannot, for example, ask the Indigenous People of Biafra to go on with its plan to secede. How many people in the east have allegiance to the group and the need for a break-up? Has there been a referendum or a plebiscite? “Who says, I, as a Yoruba wants to remain in Nigeria? Who says my daughter doesn’t want to remain in Nigeria? We don’t have consensus even within our families. *President Buhari and ex-president Goodluck Jonathan: There had been blame-trading between the PDP and the APC* “It shouldn’t be what certain people want to railroad the majority into, because many of those calling for restructuring do not even know why certain people are agitating for it. If those calling for it get into government today, they may jettison the idea “It could be that they have lost their bid to govern the country and as a result are now clamouring for restructuring because their own idea of restructuring could be different from what others think. “What we need is true, sincere sovereign national conference.” Source: Naij Posted on 16/09/16