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PDP, APC Tackle Each Other Over Restructuring

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SAN FRANCISCO, August 20, (THEWILL) – The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, at the weekend traded words over their positions on the agitation for the restructuring of Nigeria.

APC’s national publicity secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi, had stated on Saturday that the PDP was not interested in restructuring. Reacting a day after, his PDP counterpart, Dayo Adeyeye, insisted that the PDP supports a restructuring of the governance system to place Nigeria on the path of growth, development and posterity.

He accused the APC of trying to deceive Nigerians by pretending to be a latter-day supporter of the issue, stressing that evidence of PDP’s commitment to restructuring was provided in a statement to journalists by its national caretaker committee chairman, Ahmed Makarfi, on June 22.

The APC asked Nigerians to ignore the PDP, as Abdullahi wondered why the former ruling party did not do anything about restructuring in 16 years it was in power.

Insisting that the opposition party’s position must be a joke, he said, “The report of the 2014 constitutional conference was submitted to the then Federal Government and nothing was done on it for more than a year.

“The conference was set up when election was approaching, just to hoodwink the people of the South-West to support the party. Now, they know that Nigerians are interested in restructuring and they are now claiming to believe in restructuring. Where were they for 16 years when the party was in power?

“We are the ones who have restructuring in our manifesto and we are the ones who have a committee working on it. They should mention one thing they have done to show that they believe in it.”

Meanwhile, the PDP said, “This sudden resurrection of the ruling party’s ’s interest in ‘restructuring’ after several months of denial by the Chairman of the APC, John Oyegun, Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, some governors elected on the platform of the party and other senior party officials that the APC did not promise restructuring in its manifesto and during the Campaigns in 2015, is the latest in a series of deceitful ploys designed and being implemented by the party to hoodwink Nigerians ahead of the 2019 General Elections.

“As the word implies, restructuring is a process of re-arrangement, re-organisation or re-formation of the manner or way in which something (in this case governance) is done.

“As used in the Nigerian political lexicon, restructuring refers to the modification of the system of governance to guarantee the socio-economic and political growth and development of the Nigerian people.

“Indeed, our party’s commitment to constantly seeking solutions to the challenges confronting the nation caused us to amend our party’s constitution to include the equitable devolution (decentralization) of power for greater functionality, national integration and rapid economic and social reconstruction, amongst other things.

“Examples can be found in Preamble 2(b) and (e), Section 7(b) and (f), and many more provisions of our party constitution.

“It is against the backdrop of our party’s commitment to restructuring the system of socio-political governance in Nigeria for better functionality and efficiency that the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan summoned a National Conference to recommend amendments to the Nigerian Constitution.

“This conference submitted a report with several proposed amendments to the Constitution which the APC-led Federal Government has refused to implement more than two years later.

“It is imperative to point out that APC was the only political party which refused to attend the National Conference in 2014.

“It is also imperative to point out that APC’s refusal to participate at the Conference was predicated on a narrow and selfish interest.”

Adeyeye further urged opinion leaders across the country to participate in the call for restructuring in the best interest of Nigeria and its people.

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