WHY IS RESTRUCTURING TROUBLING THE NORTHERN ELDERS INSTEAD OF THEIR YOUTH?

The subject of restructuring - if you ask me - should concern the average Nigerian youth of today's Nigeria more it should concern our elders. This is because studies have shown that an average youth always held a different view of contemporary life from the elders. That said, it was the goodwill of elders to guide the youth aright but it was the youth who will actually live in the 'planned' future the elders foresaw.
I intend to react to the headlines of the DailySun of saturday, 17/3/2018 which had as lead story NORTH'LL RESIST RESTRUCTURING IN NIGERIA - PROF. ANGO. For the records, since the fall of the First Republic, it was the intention of the 5 army youths who ousted that government 1966 to restructure the federation so as to first and foremost, solve the raging agitation from the Tiv people who constantly provoked a riot at the time.
Their attempt failed and power was transferred to another 'moustache pete' or 'old man' as we commonly called them. General Ironsi took power with the promise to implement the restructuring of the federation but continued to renege until he was pushed off from power in a counter coup. It will take another youth - General Gowon - to carve out 12 states from the existing 4 regions. Each region was partitioned into 3 states.
That move was wildly applauded but it did not yet address the issue. In the North, Sir Ahmadu Bello adamantly defended a feudalistic system much to the bitter resentment of folks who thought that there should be a Middlebelt Region. Today, the result of that defense are clearly seen; the North presently suffered from lack of basic education, unemployment, unhealthy child marriages, crime and drug abuse.
None of his so-called apologists after him, carried on to implement his policies. There was no robust arrangement to make agriculture sustainable neither was there any concrete policy on irrigation systems in the region. Before 1966, there was also the case of the Ogoja-Calabar-Ijaw tribes who felt at the time that they could not survive under a majority Ibo-region and their issues received attention with the declaration of Biafra and the creation of East-central state and Rivers state in 1967.    
My point is this: That the Northern elders today are against restructuring just for the purpose of defending their 50% majority in parliament and in federal allocations. They failed to realize that Sir Ahmadu's defense of the same 50% majority only succeeded in making the region poorer. It was believed then and it is still so today that with this 50%, the region had no use for a cosmopolitan culture nor for a generation of educated and hardworking youth.
Unfortunately, the youths are beginning to demand answers as to why despite being the majority, the region was still poor, undeveloped and socially ancient. Some of them like the eminent ex-CBN governor Emir Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has since his ascent to the throne of his fathers argued in favor of education and cosmopolitanism. The youths must understand that the Nigeria that will favor every Nigerian will never be one founded on inequality, differential citizenry or hate.
No. The country that we all desired was one founded on equity and justice and importantly also, that that Nigeria will not have a large percentage of these elders who are currently bargaining disaster for the region because they'll be all dead by then. Therefore, I believed it was necessary for educated youths in the region to stand up and fight for a just cause instead of allowing men whose time on earth was not more than a decade from now to negotiate on their behalf.
Comrade Ifeanyichukwu Mmoh writes from Abuja. 08062577718.