Northern senators, governors to meet in Katsina over restructuring

The Northern Senators’ Forum and the 19 Northern governors would on Monday converge in Katsina for a three-day retreat to deliberate on the agitations for restructuring of the country.
Chairman of the forum, Sen. Abdullahi Adamu, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Abuja that the retreat would also focus on how to improve the security situation in the country.

It would be recalled that for the same reason of agitations for restructuring and other challenges facing the country, Southern Senators met recently in Calabar.

Adamu said that the Forum had written letters of invitation to the 19 governors, leading traditional rulers, top politicians and ex-senators from the region to make presentations at the retreat.

He said that the gathering would enable the senators, as the peoples’ representatives, to take a common position on restructuring.

“It is expected that very important stakeholders will be attending. Northern governors will be attending in solidarity and very eminent traditional rulers, including the Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar III, will attend.

Essentially, we will be discussing the impact of budget in the north, the issue of restructuring which is now the main issue in politics.

“The issue of restructuring that the Senate can develop a position on. It is part of preparing ourselves to face that challenge.

“The issue of security will also be discussed,” Adamu said.

He pointed out that as representatives of the people, it would be expected that with the retreat, they would be better educated, better placed to consider issues related to the subject-matter.