All service chiefs should honourably resign, including IGP, EFCC dismantled_ Agbakoba

The swearing in of Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the 16th president of Nigeria on Monday at the Eagle squaire have raised expectations of Nigerians on what the new administration needs to put in place before it can achieve its goal.

Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Olisa Agbakoba explicitly stated that for the administration to succeed, the new administration needs to reconfigure certain structures of the government as well as find ways to connect fully with Nigerian citizens through sub national leaders.

He revealed this while appearing as guest on ARISE television talk show, The Morning Show on Wednesday. He said that among the numerous expectations beckoning on the administration is the need for the president to unite the nation through proper communication with political groups representing sub-national ethnicities of the nation.

He as well insisted on the present crop of government officials in appointive positions to resignation honourably because of their supposed ineffectiveness in the previous administration.

“A lot is expected of him and here are a couple of things I would say. National unity; the country is so divided that nothing can happen without President Tinubu making a big attempt to unite Nigerians.

“I would suggest that he can call a meeting of the sub nationalities of Nigeria. The Afeniferes, the Ohanezes; because these guys have a very strong hold on their ethnic nationalities . If that happens and it is successful, that then pushes the way forward for him to unleash a couple of big programs.

“One would be insecurity. I would say all service chiefs should honourably resign. All of them including the IG of police because they’ve not done well. President Tinubu cannot go on with these service chiefs. We need to create a new security infrastructure.”

Agbakoba pointed out that there is a need to rapidly improve the nation’s economy as he described the debt to revenue ratio as “horrible.” After which he stated that the legislature would need to review up to 56,000 uncompleted projects including the Nigerian maritime service and the Nigerian Sea ports to which he estimated would both bring in over 18 billion Naira in revenue for the nation.

He suggested that moving forward, the administration would need to get rid of hindrances that would misrepresent the government by taking steps to reduce its size, according to the SAN, “We need to talk about limited government. The government is simply too big. We need to talk about anti corruption.

“The anti corruption process is not working. I have challenged the constitutionality of the EFCC. EFCC is a behemoth. EFCC needs to be dismantled, Mr. Bawa needs to go because what he’s doing isn’t attracting people’s confidence. He’s always in battle with everybody. Now he’s battling Matawalle. That’s no way to fight corruption.

“So we need to see Mr. Bawa step aside honourably. So that the anti corruption process can be seen to be genuinely fought by the president without any equivocation.

“All the guys who took part of the old government should honourably step down. He needs new people.”

Agbakoba suggested that “good people” would help the administration improve itself at certain administrations such as Babatunde Ogala or Babatunde Raji Fashola for the position of Attorney General and Governor Bagudu as Secretary to the Government of the Federation. He also stated that the people are more interested in development than the person who currently occupies the position of the president.

“The fact that there are cases in the tribunal should not prevent him from absolutely getting the job done.”