The All Progressives Congress, APC, has
explained its confusion in the face of
clamour by some Nigerians for the
restructuring of the country, saying it didn’t
understand what people meant by it.
Consequently, the party has set up a
committee to come up with the party’s own
definition of restructuring. APC said the
committee, headed by Governor Nasir el-
Rufai of Kaduna State, was not to come up
with modalities for restructuring the
country but to merely define the concept,
since it didn’t understand the meaning of
the concept as bandied about by some
Nigerians. Party spokesman, Bolaji Abdullahi,
said.
“We just finished the meeting with our
governors and we considered a number of
issues. They include the issue of
restructuring, national convention of the
party and these regular meetings would be
expanded to include principal officers of the
National Assembly from now on.”
He spoke, yesterday, in Abuja shortly after a
meeting of its National Working Committee,
NWC, and its 24 state governors. Flanked by
the Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’
Forum, Abubakar Yari of Zamfara State,
Simon Lalong of Plateau and Yahaya Bello of
Kogi, Abdullahi said:
“When we talk about a committee on
restructuring, what we are talking about is a
committee that will articulate what APC
means by restructuring because we have
realised that over a couple of days now or
weeks, when people use the word
restructuring, we don’t know if we are
talking about the same thing and people
have gone about saying APC promised
restructuring.
“So this committee that is set up that will
now be chaired by the governor of Kaduna
is mainly to define what APC means by
restructuring, so that every member will
know what we exactly mean”.
Other members of the nine-member
committee are Governors of Osun State, Rauf
Aregbesola; Kano, Dr. Abdullahi Umar
Ganduje; Plateau, Simon Lalong; Ogun,
Ibikunle Amosun; and former governor of
Edo State, Prof. Oserheimen Osunbor.
Others are APC National Organising
Secretary, Sen. Osita Izunaso; National
Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi
and Senator Olubunmi Adetunmbi, who will
serve as secretary.
