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Atiku campaign group accuses APC of dishonesty over restructuring

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Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar

The Atiku campaign group has lambasted the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), accusing it of desperation over attack on former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar due to his stand on the need to restructure the country.

In a release to the media yesterday, the campaign group, noted that Atiku had consistently been clamouring for a restructuring of the country over the years, and had in the past aligned with like-minds and groups to proffer solutions to disagreements that had emanated from revenue-sharing formula and resource control in the country.

The statement stressed that there were enough evidence to support Atiku’s consistent clamour for restructuring of the country which dated to 1995, while further accusing the APC of failing to fulfil its campaign promise of restructuring the country.

“It is a sign of the desperation of the All Progressives Congress (APC) that the party can officially attack Atiku Abubakar, and call him a ‘latter-day convert’ to the idea of restructuring and accused him of exploiting ‘populist political campaigns’.

“We are glad that the APC, which has repeatedly denied and avoided its own promise to restructure, has now acknowledged that restructuring is populist. It takes guts to make such an admission and we commend them.

“We also urge the APC to go the full haul and admit that the Waziri Adamawa is no latter-day convert to the restructuring idea but has been a consistent advocate of the idea since 1995.

“But Nigerians may want to ask the APC why it denied its own promise to restructure Nigeria. The case of the APC is like the case of a farmer who chances on thieves on his farm.

“If he does not raise the alarm, the thieves can accuse the farmer of being a thief. The APC wants to falsely raise the alarm so that Nigerians will not know who the genuine advocate of restructuring is between them and Atiku Abubakar”.

“We will like to educate the APC on the fact that it was precisely Atiku Abubakar who used the network he built at the 1994-95 conference to persuade the Niger Delta governors like Obong Victor Attah and Peter Odili, who were his colleagues at the 1994-95 constitutional conference to reach a political solution to solve a problem caused by the constitution”.

According to the statement, “If the APC would care to Google ‘Resource Control’, they would find articles from various Nigerian papers dating back to July 13, 2001, in which Waziri Atiku Abubakar has been championing restructuring”.

 

Iniobong Iwok

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