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Salvador attacks PDP, says restructuring impossible under current arrangement

Moshood Salvador

Ahead of the forthcoming general elections in the country, a chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State, Moshood Salvador, has accused the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) of deceiving Nigerians with campaign promise to restructure the country within six months of assuming power.

Salvador spoke to Journalists at his resident, in Surulere, Thursday, noting that the country was too complex for a President to begin the process of its restructuring and complete it within six month of assuming office.

Salvador, a former PDP chairman in the state who defected to the APC last year, wondered why previous administrations of the PDP at the centre could not restructure the country even when it was so important.

“What I can say about restructuring that the PDP is shouting about is that it is a shame to the Yoruba people, and they know the only way they can get it is to ask all these old men to come out and talk about it. The country is too big and it is too complex for that to be done in six months,” he pointed out.

“I would ask the old men what have they been doing since they joined politics when one of them was 27. Why has it not been implemented? And it is after they are 90 years old that they want to restructure?”

According to him, restructuring is a Southern agenda. “Obasanjo was there for eight years, he did not restructure. It is now he knows he wants to talk about restructuring. Jonathan was there he did not talk about it. He was talking about derivation, because derivation is the baby of his region. How come Yoruba in the west is talking about restructuring which we know is impossible?”

The former member of House of Representatives, however, advocated for more dialogue among different ethnic nationalities in the country if the current agitations were to see the light of the day.

Salvador said that Nigerians agreed to the practice democracy, pointing out that the issue of restructuring is up to the members of the National Assembly to handle, “and if we agree to a referendum, is the National Assembly ready to step aside?” he asked.

“If you agitate for this its means you are challenging the authority of this government which is not good,” Salvador added.

 

Iniobong Iwok