We Must Be Wary Of Latter-day Converts Of Restructuring, APC Warns

We Must Be Wary Of Latter-day Converts Of Restructuring, APC Warns

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that it cannot agree more with Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo on the restructuring of Nigeria and that Nigerians should be wary of latter-day converts to the matter of restructuring who are exploiting the issue for populist political campaigns.

The APC in a statement on Sunday signed by Mr. Yekini Nabena Ag. National Publicity Secretary and titled ‘APC on the Renewed Restructuring Debate’ said the party ‘believes that good, sincere, focussed, and purposeful leadership at all levels will propel the country to its deserved heights.’

The APC further questioned that Alhaji Atiku was Vice President and Chairman of the National Economic Council throughout the eight years of the President Olusegun Obasanjo administration.

How did he use his office to correct the imbalance in our federation he expresses today? Senator David Mark was Senate President for eight years and never sponsored a motion on restructuring.

The renewed restructuring debate particularly between the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo and one of his predecessors, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has been trending in the media.

Prof. Osinbajo in his well-articulated response to Alh. Atiku, submitted that what Nigeria requires now is not geographic restructuring but good governance, honest management of public resources, deeper fiscal Federalism and a clear vision for development.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) cannot agree more with Prof. Osinbajo.

It must be said that the calls for restructuring by many politicians is often time a populist and opportunistic ploy to latch on and politically exploit simplistic public narratives on the panacea to Nigeria’s problems and not necessarily for its realism and practicability.

Past administrations have splashed billions of public funds to convene several national conferences, subsequently left conference reports to gather dust and achieved NOTHING.

Bad governance, corruption, bigotry and other ills remain the limiting factors that continue to hold the country back. We must never succumb to ethnic champions who promote campaigns to breakup the country into tiny bits or other unrealistic and unpatriotic proposals in the name of restructuring to solve our problems as a country.

‘ It is simplistic and unconstitutional. For instance, Alhaji Atiku was Vice President and Chairman of the National Economic Council throughout the eight years of the President Olusegun Obasanjo administration.

‘How did he use his office to correct the imbalance in our federation he expresses today? Senator David Mark was Senate President for eight years and never sponsored a motion on restructuring. Today he is promising to restructure the country.