Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Timi Frank,
has warned the party leadership against playing with the sensibility of
Nigerians who want the country restructured.
The former APC spokesperson was reacting to a 10-man
committee set up to articulate APC’s notion on restructuring, and strongly
frowned at the appointment of Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-rufai as the
committee chairman.
Frank made his position known in a statement he signed in
Abuja on Friday.
He said ,“Governor El-rufai has not hidden his opposition to
the issue of restructuring since Nigerians began to remind us of our promise
which is boldly written in our party promise book, hence the need to remove him
because he does not believe in it.
“The Kaduna state Governor has also called some of our
leaders and former Head of State different names because of this issue.”
He recalled that the Kaduna State governor while speaking
recently in a interview had described those calling for the restructuring of
Nigeria as “political opportunists and irresponsible”, a comment, Frank said
earned the Governor a nationwide condemnation.
Comrade Frank believes that, “for the fact that
restructuring is one of the promises in APC manifestoes, it will amount to
deceit if the party renege on its promise.”
He said the governors and the National Working Committee
(NWC) should know that the promise of restructuring was one of the reasons
Nigerians massively voted for the party in 2015, saying therefore “such issue
is a non-negotiable and should be a priority that must be fulfilled.”
He added, “I see not reason for setting up a committee for
something that is not negotiable at this time.”
By John Owen Nwachukwu
