Fayose to Nigerians: Reject el-Rufai’s Committee on Restructuring, says ‘APC acting like it’s greater than Nigeria’

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has called on Nigerians to reject the All Progressives Congress’s committee on restructuring, describing it as dead on arrival and a ruse.
“It is a blatant attempt to draw the wool over the eyes of Nigerians”, he added.
In a statement on Friday by his Chief Press Secretary (CPS), Mr. Idowu Adelusi, Fayose, who is also the chairman of the PDP Governors’ Forum, said the APC committee on restructuring is unneccesary since Nigerians, in their large numbers, cutting across party, regional, ethnic, social, and religious backgrounds, have overwhelmingly voted for immediate restructuring of the polity.
Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State is the chairman of the committee.
“This APC distraction is meant to deceive Nigerians one more time. Nigerians must unequivocally reject it. They have deceived us enough and we must not allow them deceive us again.
“APC and its government at the centre have failed on all fronts and have not delivered on their promises to the electorate. They have lived in denial and have spent the last two years either blaming everyone else but themselves for their cluelessness or repudiating their election promises.
“Whereas they promised restructuring in their party manifesto, they have come out openly to deny this obvious fact. So, who does not know that their so-called committee is an ingenious attempt to deceive and sweep the raging storm over restructuring under the carpet?
“This is a government that specialises in sweeping serious national issues under the carpet. The health status of the president is being swept under the carpet despite demands from Nigerians that they reveal his health status.
“The report of the presidential investigative committee on the alleged corrupt activities of two principal officers of the Buhari administration has also been swept under the carpet. My protest letter to the acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, on this issue has not received the speedy attention it deserves”, he said
Fayose then noted that APC has nothing new to say on restructuring, adding that “Nigerians have spoken and have spoken clearly and unambiguously that they want restructuring and that they want it without delay. Delay is dangerous. Nigerians have said they want restructuring now; no hanky-panky and no pulling of the wool over our eyes”
“Rather than this time-buying committee, the APC government should make haste to respect the overwhelming views of Nigerians on restructuring. The 2014 Political Conference Report is there; the APC-government should swallow its vain pride and revisit it.
“APC as a political party must know that it is not bigger than Nigerians; it is not even up to 5% of the population of the country. Rather than waste resources on a wild-goose chase, there are more pressing needs to urgently attend to, such as the spiralling violence all over the country, resurging Boko Haram, an economy that gets worse by the day, and a suffering, hunger, and misery never-before imagined in the land if this country must be salvaged from the dangerous edge of the precipice”, he added.