By Olayinka Ajayi
The Political Action Committee ,PAC, of the Pan Yoruba socio-political group,
Yoruba First TYF has urged President Bola Tinubu to urgently move beyond rhetoric and champion structural reforms.
The committee who condemned the recently thwarted coup and attempt at assasinating of President Tinubu and his top executives led by Arewa caucus in a statement, insisted that Nigeria’s current over-centralized structure has proven incapable of protecting lives.
In statement, Directorof Committee, Dr. Bukola Adeniji, said the action was largely orchestrated by greedy officials in the military whon are largely of Arewa Extraction.
“This unconstitutional action and threats against the democratic order of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the elected government of President Bola Tinubu is a reflection of the divided and poorly structured Nigeria state.
“Nigeria has paid too high a price in blood, instability, and lost decades of development under past military interventions. Any attempt—whether real, rumored, or insinuated—to destabilize the constitutional order must be unequivocally rejected by all patriots. The era of power through force must never return to our national life.
“Nigeria’s deepening insecurity, terrorism, banditry, and mass killings across multiple regions represent a grave failure of the current centralized security and governance architecture. Communities in the North, South-West, South-East, Middle Belt, and South-South continue to bury their dead while perpetrators operate with impunity. This is unacceptable in any modern state.
“We therefore urge President Bola Tinubu to move beyond rhetoric and urgently champion structural reforms that address the root causes of Nigeria’s insecurity and national disintegration. Central among these reforms is the adoption of true ethnolinguistic federalism anchored on: Devolution of Powers: Returning policing, internal security, and local economic development to federating units rooted in shared ethnolinguistic and cultural realities.Regional Security Architecture: Enabling constitutionally backed state and regional security forces to complement federal security agencies. Fiscal Federalism: Allowing regions to control a significant share of their resources to fund security, development, and social welfare. Local Accountability: Bringing governance closer to the people so communities can directly hold leaders responsible for security failures.
“Nigeria’s current over-centralized structure has proven incapable of protecting lives. Terrorist groups, criminal networks, and violent actors thrive in the gaps created by distant, slow, and overstretched federal control. A restructured federation, built around Nigeria’s ethnolinguistic realities, is not a threat to unity—it is the only sustainable path to peace, stability, and shared prosperity.
“We reaffirm that Nigeria’s unity must be built on justice, equity, security, and consent—not on force, silence, or fear. The continuous and senseless loss of lives across the country is a moral indictment of the status quo.
“We call on the President and National Assembly to initiate urgent constitutional and security reforms, Civil society, traditional institutions, and regional bodies to openly support restructuring and community-based security. Nigerians across all regions to reject coups, reject violence, and demand a political structure that protects life and dignity.
“Nigeria must choose reform over repression, restructuring over decay, and life over endless mourning.”
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