APC Frustrating Genuine Restructuring – PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has rejected what it Tuesday described as attempts by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to manipulate the system and frustrate the widespread clamour by Nigerians for a genuine restructuring.

The PDP also alleged plans by the APC to smuggle the report of its committee on restructuring into the National Assembly to replace the 2014 National Conference Report, describing it as an unpardonable assault on the sensibility of over 200 million Nigerians, whose collective interests are contained in the Conference Report.

“Nigerians are also alerted of a fresh ploy by some ambitious APC leaders to blackmail the legislature and create an impression of commitment to restructuring, just to beguile the people and soften the ground for their personal political and particularly, presidential ambitions ahead of the 2023 elections,” the PDP said in a statement issued by its spokesman, Kola Ologbondinyan.

“Our party stands at the forefront of efforts for genuine restructuring, but we hold that the authentic materials for a genuine restructuring are contained in the 2014 National Conference report, wherein, Nigerians, across all the divides, collectively provided a road map out of our constitutional quagmires; and not a partisan report by the APC,” he said.

Continuing, he said:

“It is therefore unacceptable that the 2014 National Conference report, which embodies the desires and hopes of over 200 million Nigerians, has been shelved by President Muhammadu Buhari, since his predecessor in office, President Goodluck Jonathan, personally handed it over to him in 2015 for implementation in line with the wishes and aspirations of the people.

“Our party therefore charges President Muhammadu Buhari to bring out the 2014 National Conference Report, dust it up and present it as an executive bill to the National Assembly to guide the desired amendment to the 1999 Constitution (as amended) with regard to restructuring.”

“If the APC is indeed sincere, it should call on President Buhari to immediately do the needful, today, not tomorrow, by presenting the 2014 National Conference report to the National Assembly as an executive bill on restructuring as desired by Nigerians.

“What our country needs today is a restructuring that is genuinely derived from the people and which guarantees true federalism, equity, justice, fairness as well as national cohesion, and not a partisan document being bandied by the APC.”

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