Will achieve better restructuring – APC

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has assured Nigerians that the country will be better restructured under the Muhammadu Buhari Presidency.
The party spoke against the backdrop of the ongoing debate between Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar over the issue.
Acting National Publicity Secretary of APC, Yekini Nabena, who made the party’s position known in a statement yesterday in Abuja, said the ruling party believes that good, sincere and purposeful leadership at all levels “will propel the country to its deserved heights”.
He said: “Sincere efforts towards achieving true federalism are more important than politicallyexploited populist rhetoric which achieve nothing,” he said in a statement.
“With emphasis on practicability, constitutionality and reality, we are confident that true federalism or restructuring as some will like to call it, will be better achieved under the President Buhari-led APC administration.” Backing Osinbajo’s view, the spokesman said Nigeria does not need geographic restructuring but good governance.
Nabena said Nigerians must not surrender to “ethnic champions who promote campaigns to break up the country into tiny bits or other unrealistic and unpatriotic proposals in the name of restructuring, to solve our problems as a country.
“Osinbajo in his well-articulated response to Atiku, submitted that what Nigeria requires now is not geographic restructuring but good governance, honest management of public resources, deeper fiscal Federalism and a clear vision for development.
“The APC cannot agree more with Prof.
Osinbajo.
It must be said that the calls for restructuring by many politicians is often time a populist and opportunistic ploy to latch on and politically exploit simplistic public narratives on the panacea to Nigeria’s problems and not necessarily for its realism and practicability.
“Past administrations have splashed billions of public funds to convene several national conferences, subsequently left conference reports to gather dust and achieved nothing.
Bad governance, corruption, bigotry and other ills remain the limiting factors that continue to hold the country back.” According to him, a wellarticulated roadmap for a “wellsecured, better governed Nigeria with equitable distribution of resources within the component federating units, is being given serious attention.